As Sean Bean read the screenplay for “The Young Messiah,” the story of a young Jesus Christ just beginning to understand who he is, the actor says it was the parts of the story that he didn’t know ...

In this cinematic imagining of Jesus (Adam Greaves-Neal) as a child of about seven or eight living with his parents in the small Jewish community of Alexandria, Egypt, we meet a young boy who is ...

You may have read about Lu Ann Ballew, the Tennessee judge who recently changed a 7-month-old baby’s name, Messiah, to Martin. Her ruling was based not on compassion for the poor infant, but on the ...

Most Americans are fine with babies named Messiah, Christ or any other religious name their parents like, a study from LifeWay Research released today indicates. What they don’t like are judges ...

Because in this franchise-saturated age, even the New Testament apparently requires a prequel — aside, of course, from the Old Testament — “The Young Messiah” envisages a year in the life of Christ ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. — A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ.” Child Support ...

Also, of note, Ballew says that people naming their child Jesus is "not relevant to this case." (Buzzfeed notes that Jesus was the 101st most popular name in the United States last year. Messiah was ...