Can one belief hold while so many others around it shift? In a nation where religious affiliation has been in gradual decline ...
"They said to one another, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?’" (Luke 24:32). This passage, from Luke's ...
Every year, Christians from around the world gather for worship on Easter Sunday. Also known as Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, Easter is the final day of a weeklong commemoration of the story of Jesus ...
(The Conversation) — As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Other charismatic ...
A depiction of the risen Christ appearing to his disciples in a fresco from the Grand Cloister of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. Photo by the Rev. Lawrence Lew, OP/Flickr/Creative Commons ...
Jesus of Nazareth is perhaps the most significant individual in human history, and yet some skeptics and critics have questioned his existence. How much can we actually know about him beyond the ...
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 ...
But how and why would that torturous event and extreme sorrow associated with the death of the messiah affect eternity in a positive way? Why should Easter be a joyful time? The answer is neither ...
I used to work as a campus minister at Kansas State University. In that context, I worked with dozens of undergraduates who endured faith crises that were made immeasurably more challenging by the ...
One story my family regularly tells is from Easter 1981, when my grandmother, the late Mary Lou Cole, made Easter baskets for all the little kids at the family celebration. They weren’t actually her ...