On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...
Holy Week 2023 continues with Scripture readings from Isaiah 42, Psalm 27 and John 12 that seem to describe a warrior planting his feet firmly in preparation for battle. But he has no weapons except ...
For the last 2,000 years, many have tried to deny the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. The reason is that people understand that the resurrection validates the Man and His message. If Jesus rose, ...
THE PASSION AND THE DEATH OF Jesus, which Christians celebrate this week, may well be the world's best-known story. For believers, it is the core of Christian faith and identity, the drama that gives ...
Almost 65 years ago, Mamie Till-Mobley decided to have an open casket at the funeral of her murdered son Emmett Till. Weeks before, this young mother from the south side of Chicago had sent her ...
As a chronic overthinker, the last lines of the Gospel today were painfully relatable. As a child of God, they were beyond comforting. We are told that the apostles, whom the Gospel tells us were ...
"These characters didn’t know they were in the Bible. They didn't know the outcome from the Bible. They're humans; they're flawed humans," EP Roma Downey tells THR. By Natalie Stone [Warning: This ...
In times of fear and difficulty, call on Jesus, who has already conquered the powers of evil, Pope Francis said on Sunday. “The powers of evil that frighten us, that we cannot master, immediately take ...