While the crucifixion and resurrection command our attention, we must not overlook the profound significance of that silent ...

Dismas’ endurance beyond Jesus’ death is what makes him a companion to the long-suffering. He has gone before those for whom, whether by age or chronic illness, every breath is a burden. Dismas is a ...

Consider the story of the good thief in Luke, and the Jewish idea of teshuva, or returning to goodness.

At noon, when the sun should have been at its highest, the sky went black. Not clouded. Not stormy. Black. Like the heavens ...

58. “‘Sir’, they said, ‘We remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ ...

We are entering the last several days of Holy Week. These culminate in Jesus’s ministry and the beginning of his Passion and Death. Christians worldwide are getting ready to celebrate the Resurrection ...

The Roman soldiers were stamping so vehemently, you could feel vibrations through the floor. They nailed Jesus to the cross and roughly brought forward two thieves to crucify, one on each side.

Easter, quite simply, is the observance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Many people have different ideas ...

"Father, into Your hands, I commend my spirit" is last in a series of phrases called Jesus' Seven Last Words or the Siete Palabras.

NCR's Michael Sean Winters writes, reminds us that Jesus did not only confront injustice and sin but death itself, and he did ...

Orthodox Christians observe Holy Thursday, a solemn day in the Holy Week commemorating key moments from the final hours of Jesus Christ’s eart ...

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...