While the sun beamed orange rays of light over Long Island Sound, more than 50 devoted Christians huddled together at Calf Pasture Beach for an early-morning Easter Sunday celebration. Christians of ...

The cross will be center stage on Good Friday as Christians worldwide reflect on the seven last statements of Christ. It has always impressed me deeply to realize that, even as he was dying, he ...

Author Henri Nouwen tells the story of a family he knew in Paraguay. The father, a doctor, spoke out against the military regime there and its human rights abuses. Local police took their revenge on ...

Historian Garret Fagan summarizes how the Romans—the culture encountered by the early church—viewed the values of strength and weakness: Ideas of universal human dignity were almost all but ...

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