Have you ever noticed that Jesus begins and ends his public ministry in the wilderness? These deserts are the geographical bookends of the greatest story ever told. In today’s Gospel we have ...

Cambridge, MA. On this first Sunday of Lent, February 26, we heard a remarkably brief version of Jesus’ time in the desert: “And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.

When Jesus was tempted for 40 days in the wilderness the Bible clearly states that after the temptation the devil left him. If the devil left Jesus, he also leaves us.

Jesus towers over any film he’s in, whether he’s wandering alone in the wilderness, dirty and tired and probably smelling bad, or arguing with the devil, or hanging out with a family around ...

View the full series. A version of this story appeared in the March 18-31, 2022 print issue under the headline: A long time with Jesus in the wilderness.

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In the presidential campaigns, Governor Huckabee raised the question of Mormons, do Mormons believe Satan and Jesus were brothers. For an answer to this, one needs to look into the New Testament ...

Satan and Jesus can be hard to distinguish in the director's work, which flaunts a harsh view of life and nature — human or otherwise — in the north of France.