The attempt to project contemporary politics or our own aspirations onto such a sacred figure is always problematic.

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Stanley Hauerwas meditates on the necessity of the gospel, the politics of the kingdom, and the high demands of ...

A rabbi who has performed hundreds of funeral writes that the answer speaks not only to how we honor the dead, but to what we ...

The 88-year-old pontiff emphasized that both Simeon and Anna were people of prayer and worship. Pope Francis on Wednesday ...

A live-action theatrical performance depicting Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection is selling out mainstream venues across the United States as it begins its spring tour visiting 25 cities ...

How might they react? Will they love it? Or will they want to throw me off a cliff like they did to Jesus in the synagogue? It was Jesus’ words that I was to preach on. In a series determined late ...

Hamra was last rabbi to quit Syria — one of thousands of communty members to exit in 1990 Visiting Jewish worshippers attend the first prayer since 1992, held in the Ifrange Synagogue in the ...