4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (142+ words) The Procession to Calvary by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (public domain) For a period in northern Renaissance art, painters liked to zoom out from the Passion story to create a vast tableau. They painted ambitious, dramatic landscapes with swirling crowds…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (165+ words) The war in Iran underscores what was already evident: Trump goes on instinct, and his instinct is to dominate others. One of the stark divides in American culture is how we frame problems and assign blame: to individuals, their character…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (325+ words) Stigmata assert identity and collective memory through self-scarred skin. What if we read the Thomas story through a tattoo hermeneutic? A Chin woman in Myanmar with traditional facial tattoos (intek1 / iStock Editorial / Getty) That said, a shared vocabulary can be a…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (98+ words) Prison Chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and Practicing Life in Prisons Patrick M. Tugwell is a doctoral student in religious studies and works as a hospice and palliative care chaplain in Santa Barbara, California. This review was produced in partnership with the Narrative…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (131+ words) by Benjamin J. Dueholm The problem with a Christological reading of this story is that it places the church in the place of the Hebrews while obscuring the ways we might identify instead with Pharaoh, his armies, and his gods. As…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (998+ words) Following outcry from political and religious leaders for barring Catholic leaders in the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Israeli authorities apologized and gave them permission to worship at the church, one of…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (998+ words) Following outcry from political and religious leaders for barring Catholic leaders in the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Israeli authorities apologized and gave them permission to worship at the church, one of…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (427+ words) The two were stopped en route, while proceeding privately and without any characteristics of a procession or ceremonial act, and were compelled to turn back,” said a statement from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody Of the Holy…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (415+ words) As missiles rained down on Tehran on February 28th, prominent evangelical Jack Graham tweeted: “May God give our military total victory as we liberate the Persian people and end decades of oppression and terror in the region… This is a just…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (212+ words) Once a student asked if, at my house,we discussed grammar over dinner,and I laughed. Not exclusively, I said. Tonight we are talking about adverbs,about anyway and anyhow, whetherthey’re synonyms and which better to customize household glossolalia—hallelujah,…...