John's gospel is different from the other three in the New Testament. That fact has been recognized since the early church itself. Already by the year 200, John's gospel was called the spiritual ...

In his 24th book, The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic (HarperOne, June), the always provocative Bishop John Shelby Spong takes on the Gospel of John, opening new windows of insight and ...

A few weeks ago, a parish in Missoula, Mont., participated in a Lenten retreat. The theme for their reflection was taken from the first chapter of John: “What are you looking for?” (1:38). One person ...

When actor Ken Jennings was going through a rough patch two years ago, he began to memorize St. John's Gospel as a way to take his mind off of his troubles. He saw this exercise as a form of prayer ...

Columnist Paul Prather says that the Gospel of John is the most interesting account of the Easter story. Getty Images/iStockphoto This is Holy Week on the Christian calendar, culminating on Sunday ...

For Brad Sherrill, the play grew to be something more than a play. Of course, giving a one-man performance of the entire Gospel of John is not typical theater fare to begin with. But what Sherrill ...

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God, and through him were all things made." These words of the opening prologue of the ...

The method of Philip Saville's The Gospel of John defies ordinary film criticism and indeed ordinary movie viewing. Dialogue and narration have been taken, verbatim and without omission or ...

I hope it won’t be taken as blasphemy if I say that The Gospel of John, a three-hour adaptation of the life of Jesus, is altogether too faithful to its source. The makers of this ponderously ...