Christians celebrate Holy Week and Easter to mark the most significant event in human history: the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is God’s mulligan to humanity. The phrase Holy ...

In the fall, Catholics and some other Christian churches celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross. With the feast, Christians commemorate Jesus Christ’s life, especially his salvific death on the cross ...

Q: I love wearing a cross on a chain. I get more comments about this piece of jewelry. Why are people so fascinated with this symbol and why do so many people wear it without knowing what it stands ...

A wooden cross is silhouetted by the early morning sun at the First Lutheran Church, 1701 19th St., Parkersburg. (Photo by Art Smith) As the faithful gather in church this weekend to celebrate Easter, ...

Billy Graham video makes an impact. Jesus was crucified on the cross alongside two common thieves outside the city of Jerusalem in a place called Golgotha. After His death, the chief priests and ...

The world can be smugly tolerant of the virtues of Christianity as well as of the vices of Christians, but it cannot tolerate the New Testament message of the Cross. The Cross exposes the blackness of ...

"Mount Calvary" (a painting by William H. Johnson, ca. 1944/ Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation) In the fall, Catholics and some other Christian churches celebrate the ...

To the unregenerate mind the Cross will always be an offense. But for man to bypass that which was to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness is to bypass the way of salvation itself.

Wondering why a small dusty cross anoints the foreheads of Christians once a year? They're celebrating Ash Wednesday, which for many also marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and ...

(RNS) — Claiming that a cross is a generic memorial to all the war dead ignores real differences in our religions' teachings about eternal life and violates the fundamental aspect of religious liberty ...