"They said to one another, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?’" (Luke 24:32). This passage, from Luke's ...

(The Conversation) — As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Other charismatic ...

We often hear that Jesus, becoming human, identified with us. I wonder sometimes, though, how often we forget the flip side — we in return are meant to identify with God. I don't mean this in any ...

This weekend is one of the most recognizable weekends on the calendar each year for Christians with Good Friday being the commemoration of Jesus’ death on the cross and Easter celebrating his ...

“I do not think anyone, anywhere, at any time brings dead people back to life,” says John Dominic Crossan, an energetic liberal now retired from the Roman Catholic DePaul University in Chicago. “The ...

(Matthew 28:1-15; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-49; John 20:1-12) Jesus’ Resurrection is our salvation. St. Paul is blunt about this fact: Unless Jesus is risen from the dead, “your faith is in vain” (1 ...

Many Americans will celebrate Easter with candy, plastic eggs, pictures with the Easter Bunny, and maybe some extra family time. While these things can have their place, it's important that we ...

I used to work as a campus minister at Kansas State University. In that context, I worked with dozens of undergraduates who endured faith crises that were made immeasurably more challenging by the ...

We are still in Lent, and Sunday will be celebrated in many churches across the world as Easter or Resurrection Sunday. While the timing of the observance varies, depending on the calendar used — ...