Our Lenten observances have led us to this final week of the season. For Christian churches throughout the world, this is the most sacred week of the year—the time when ...

As Palm Sunday approaches, we find ourselves facing another opportunity to remember what Jesus, our savior, did for us.

Today, unfortunately, the Judeo-Islamic tradition is much forgotten. Instead, many people can imagine only enmity between ...

The Season of Lent which was started on Ash Wednesday with imposition of ashes on our foreheads marking ourselves with the ...

Self-denial and taking up our cross are like crucifixion. As Jesus carried his cross all the way to calvary, so must we carry ...

On April 12 at sundown, Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world will pause to gather for the most important annual event for ...

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

For Christians, Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating events in the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into ...

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Those of us on social media of any kind have probably had a similar experience. Our devices listen to us. I am not paranoid.