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Ewan McGregor He portrayed Jesus in the 2015 drama film Last Days in the Desert directed ... his final temptation on the cross. Max von Sydow featured as Jesus Christ in the 1965 epic The Greatest ...

A few examples are Jesus being tempted in the desert ... on the cross on Easter Sunday. “Easter is a time that Christians celebrate the fact that by rising from the dead, Jesus Christ has ...

Faith in America is "a load bearing wall in our democracy," says Jonathan Rauch in this Deseret News "Yellow Couch" video interview.

Fasting during Lent represents the fasting Jesus did while in the desert ... forehead in the shape of the cross. This represents that a person belongs to Jesus Christ and that a person is ...

“Jesus Christ Is Risen Today,” is a handy distillation, extolling Jesus “who did once, upon the cross … suffer to redeem our loss, alleluia!” Contemporary hymns such as the Keith and ...

Fasting during Lent represents the fasting Jesus did while in the desert. Good Friday is one of ... It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, a central event in Christian belief.

She and others make use of a newly constructed catwalk through the audience, allowing for extra-immersive numbers and a more dramatic final walk with the cross. “Jesus Christ Superstar” is ...

This weekend, Christians around the world will be celebrating Easter, remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Good Friday commemorates his crucifixion. This is when his followers ...

Divine gratuitousness is revealed most powerfully in Jesus Christ. One expression of this ... for our time is the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. The cross was not simply torture, humiliation ...

Good Friday, a Christian holiday commemorating Jesus Christ's crucifixion ... where they will meditate on and venerate the cross of Christ. Some Christians may observe a strict fast or abstain ...