Author: Steve Fortosis

An eccentric recluse wandered the Judean wilderness, subsisting on grasshoppers and wild...

He was born the son of simple peasants. Though he seemed to know all mankind, he never traveled very far from his hometown. Though he possessed obvious wisdom, he never achieved high academic degrees, or gave an exam, or wrote a book.

When they were young newlyweds, Zacharias and Elizabeth dreamed of a home filled with the sounds of children. But the years passed and Elizabeth did not conceive. Finally the couple came to the deadening realization that it would always just be the two of them.

No one had ever paid unusual attention to young Mary.  She was born in a poor family from the...

Joseph was a quiet man—reserved, gentle, and soft-spoken.  He was betrothed to a young woman...