Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with church services, processions, candles, incense, fasting and penances.
Arrest of Italian priest for abuse may renew calls for national reckoning
An Italian priest has been placed under house arrest on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a minor, while also facing at least five other charges of abuse in other communities said to date from 2011 to 2013.
The church helped me when I was a refugee. It’s called to do the same today.
In the late 1970s, the church sent a missionary pastor to the refugee camp in the Philippines where my parents were living to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. A little over a year later, the church sponsored our family…
The Church Is Fragile — And Unshakable
The burial plot of Jesus is a mess. More accurately, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem—marking what is thought to be the tomb Jesus occupied for three days—is a mess.
Funerals for cadavers: How one professor gets aspiring ministers comfortable with death
Several years ago, theology professor Mike Tapper asked a group of young, aspiring pastors how many had ever been to a funeral.
A Mission That Turned Into A Movement: The Spread Of Quakerism In Africa
Here’s a fun fact many may not know: Most of the world’s Quakers live in Africa.
Was Jesus Crucified with Nails?
The Bible doesn’t say Jesus was nailed to a cross.
A study found Black Christians often distrust American Muslims. A new program hopes to change that
When he remembers the sermon given at his grandmother’s funeral service, Tariq El-Amin describes feeling surprised as the Baptist minister preached. While El-Amin expected a sermon about death and the afterlife, he said the pastor mostly talked about how salvation…
Passover demands we reject cruelty toward strangers in our land
As Jews gather for the start of Passover and share the story of our exodus, we do more than retell our journey from persecution to freedom. The traditional text of the Haggadah read during the seder demands we see ourselves…
A Roman governor ordered Jesus’ crucifixion – so why did many Christians blame Jews for centuries?
It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion.
Judge says sexual abuse cases against San Francisco Archdiocese can go to trial
The cases of two men who allege they were sexually abused as children in Northern California by a now-deceased priest can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled.
As Anti-Hamas Protests Gather, Christians Stay Away
In a rare show of defiance, thousands of Gazans took to the streets of the northern city of Beit Lahia and other cities in the past few weeks, demanding Hamas step down and end the war.