We can see the broken places of our world either as complete and utter disaster, or as seedbeds -- graves, even -- in which God is doing a new thing.
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We can see the broken places of our world either as complete and utter disaster, or as seedbeds -- graves, even -- in which God is doing a new thing.
The world yearns for new life and deserves to hear this story: the song, the life of God's liberated people, messengers of resurrection hope and freedom.
In days such as these, in the midst of Holy Week and Passover both, I have to keep reminding myself to live and love the mysteries of faith -- rather than always trying to explain them.
If you've come to Jordan to see the country's three main showstoppers -- Petra, the Dead Sea and the site of Jesus Christ's baptism -- there's a big surprise in store for you.
You left him that clandestine night more confused than before. And yet... and yet a connection had been forged between you that you could not shrug off.
Holy Week is the most sacred time of the Christian year, commemorating the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, a radical whose life and teachings changed the course of history.
The history of Christian-Jewish relations has been largely a record of Christian hostility and cruelty. This was the last thing Stephen Adly Guirgis wanted to emulate in his play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
This Saturday, we will conduct the sentencing phase of the capital trial of Christ under Virginia rules, not far from the statues of confederate heroes and the Capitol of the second most active death penalty state.
The gospel accounts do not agree with each other about the details, and they employ the trial scenes to great effect as showdowns over authority and truth.
One of the largest Ways of the Cross occurs in New York City on Good Friday as a public procession that recalls Jesus' passion and mourns His continued suffering in people today
Jesus' execution is as historically certain as any ancient event can ever be but what about all those very specific details that fill out the story?
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this week is one of the holiest times of the year. Both religious holidays have an underlying common theme: No matter what the calamity, you will rise again to victory.
Under her given name, Leslie Phillips sang about being "black and white in a grey world," where she didn't fit. But looking back, perhaps the lady hath protested too much.
To the more cosmopolitan non-believer, I had just found a way to justify anorexia. To a person without any spiritual bearing in life and to my atheist counterparts, I was crackers.
The idea that we are stuck in this terrible reality where the sky is falling and there is no way out simply runs counter to the Christian narrative. The more the lie is repeated, the more we believe it.
There are only two basic things known about Judas: Jesus chose him as one of the twelve apostles, and he handed Jesus over to the Jewish authorities.
Bible readers throughout history have noticed discrepancies in the Gospel accounts. The fact is that Jewish people would never mistake the Passover meal for another meal.
For the first time in the history of the United States of America, the name Mary is not in the top 100 given to newborn girls.
Would Jesus unfriend Judas on his way to appear before Pilate? Would Jesus already be unfriended by all his disciples and all those who once clamored to be on his profile?
Amid the great tensions, contradictions and reversals in their flight to the Promised Land, the Israelites glorified God. Liturgical singing in churches today glorifies Our Lord in the same way.
Do we need to tell the story of Jesus' life, trial, suffering and death, when we already know the end of the story? Does knowing that the resurrection is to come spoil the Lenten experience?