Early on April 4 morning, the following message appeared on the Twitter account of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent ...
On this Easter morn, let us heed the command to start again, to reinterpret everything in our own lives and all of history in the light of Christ's definitive victory over evil.
"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 ...
I continue my effort, started in a previous column (with 12 examples), of analyzing attempts to poke holes in many aspects of the stories of Jesus’ Resurrection, as presented in all four Gospels. 1.
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 ...
But how and why would that torturous event and extreme sorrow associated with the death of the messiah affect eternity in a positive way? Why should Easter be a joyful time? The answer is neither ...
President Dallin H. Oaks: Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice and resurrection are the “ultimate evidence of God’s love.” ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mosaic of the Resurrection in the Basilica of St. Paul in Harissa, Lebanon. FredSeiller/Wikimedia Commons As Easter approaches, ...
“The gospel of God … regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendent of David according to the flesh, and who was declared to be the Son of God with power by his resurrection from the ...
A depiction of the risen Christ appearing to his disciples in a fresco from the Grand Cloister of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. Photo by the Rev. Lawrence Lew, OP/Flickr/Creative Commons ...
One story my family regularly tells is from Easter 1981, when my grandmother, the late Mary Lou Cole, made Easter baskets for all the little kids at the family celebration. They weren’t actually her ...
Back in June 2016, writer Randall Wallace revealed that he and Mel Gibson had started working on a sequel to The Passion of the Christ. This new movie would focus on the Resurrection of Jesus and the ...