When did Jesus say it was acceptable to starve the poor, slaughter women and children while turning a blind eye to the ...

The New Testament presents the Pharisees as a group that vehemently opposed the ministry of Jesus. Yet, a select few among ...

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.” – Robert A. Heinlein Tax collectors in Ancient ...

resulting in an increasing number of Jews in ancient Israel believing that He was the long-awaited Messiah. Jesus’s popularity meant that He posed a threat to Jewish leaders — the Pharisees ...

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.

Jesus does not justify sin, but offers the sinner the way of conversion. Reflection on the adulterous woman on the V Sunday ...

P alm Sunday has the stuff that makes children's church programs so fun: palm branches, singing and shouting, a donkey and ...

Sunday, March 30, is the Fourth Sunday of Lent. Mass readings: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or John 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.

On the Saturday before Holy Week, the Orthodox Church commemorates a major feast of the year, the miracle of our Lord and ...

After a jury deliberation of 16 hours, Ephraim Avery was acquitted of the murder. The law sided with the preacher; society ...