Let’s tear off the holy band-aid: Jesus had siblings, and one of them — James — was kind of a big deal. We’re not talking about “brothers in Christ” or fuzzy spiritual metaphors. We’re talking about a real, biological, flesh-and-blood sibling.
And guess what? The church has spent centuries trying to cover that up — because the truth messes with the entire neat little narrative they built around Jesus, Mary, and the early Christian movement.
