My middle daughter laments that while the New Testament records the names of four of Jesus’ brethren, his sisters are mentioned but never named (Mark 6:4). The Young Messiah rectifies this from ...

Young Adam Greaves-Neal (an English Catholic) plays the boy Jesus, here depicted as a sensitive, thoughtful lad who, due to the flight into Egypt, has known no home but Alexandria in Egypt.

If you're like me, you cringe when you hear that Hollywood is making a Bible movie. What could possibly go wrong? As we all know by now, plenty. So you can imagine the challenge I faced when I was ...

The Christians win this time, more or less: “The Young Messiah” delivers a faith-based movie at the expense of whatever “origin story” hopes co-producer Chris Columbus might have had in mind.

Cyrus Nowrasteh’s The Young Messiah — the latest tale of Jesus to hit your local multiplex — is no different, a solemn story of 7-year-old Jesus Christ (Adam Greaves-Neal), full of beards ...

Young Jesus is largely unaware of his origins, and much of the book is taken up with his daily life and that of his extended family as they make their way from Alexandria, in Egypt, ...

The details of the trip to Egypt made by Jesus, Mary and Joseph are not included in the Bible, which has only one reference to “the flight into Egypt” in Matthew 2:13-2:15.

Out of a collection of more than 1,000 stained glass windows comprising one of the finest collections in North America, the “Light and Hope Exhibition” at Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale ...

Christ the Lord Out of Egypt Anne Rice Alfred A. Knopf: 322 pp., $25.95 ...

“Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” by Anne Rice (Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95). Biblical fiction is a perilous business. Having committed not one but two such indiscretions in my time — a 1993 novel ...