Usually when St. Peter's denial of Jesus is recounted every Holy Week I find myself feeling somewhat superior. After all, Peter refuses to admit that he even ...

So look, if the divine made flesh really did roll into town to adulating crowds only to be betrayed, tortured, killed and then, holy god, rise from the ...

At the beginning of March, Philip Groning's film Into Great Silence—a two-hour and forty-minute meditation on life in the Grande Chartreuse Carthusian monastery in southeastern France—opened ...

by Is God using Naomi Campbell to teach us a lesson? The man Atlantans know as "Father Crunk" seems to think so. ...

Imagine being tortured and raped, and then being forced to watch as the ‘evil-doers' rape your daughter. All the while you know you do not have the ...

Robert Anthony Siegel's new novel All Will Be Revealed combines an engrossing plot with intricately drawn characters and a rich historical setting to create a book ...

Verena Swann sat in her carriage, peeking through the curtain at the crowd of mourners filling the avenue. Derbies, bonnets, slick black umbrellas, here and there a pale, ...

The St. Vincent De Paul Catholic School elementary girls' basketball team was winning. Again. The Nashville school was almost all black, and they were playing a mostly white Catholic school. The ...

Though less-renowned in the United States than in Great Britain, William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a member of Parliament who fought an epic battle for two decades to end the slave trade in the British Empire. ...

As a child, Lent represented a springtime of denial leading up to the chocolate-filled celebration of Easter, but as an adult I now understand a bit more why Christians ...

"Like My Body?" she slurs, lacing her fingers up her voluptuous figure and then throwing them up in the air. Introducing Kanye West at the 2004 American Music ...

You can feel it in the air—the mad rush on Tiffany's, restaurants booked-up for prix fixe dinners, store shelves cleared of teddy bears, chocolate and flowers. (And if you're ...

Andy Millman is the patron saint of resentment. The perpetually put-upon actor has love handles but no love life, recently landed a role in a sitcom that has ...

As the children of two academics who met while studying theology, growing up in the Byrne clan meant that religion was always about more than simply going to church ...

"Your faith has made you well," Jesus says to a woman who seeks out his healing presence. "Go in peace, and be healed…" (Mark 5:34). Many people who ...

Though self-identified Christian bands have been slowly breaking down the distinctions between the music that appears on the mainstream music charts and the albums that are normally trapped ...

It was a cold day in October, and I was walking down a street on New York's Lower East Side, toward a small wooden building with a flight ...

"The world is all messed up, the nation is sick, trouble is in the land, confusion all around." As the scourges of a never-ending war continue to dominate our ...

The morning Saddam Hussein was executed, my wife warned me not to go on the internet. Of course, I soon went online, but instantly knew I should have ...

In 1970, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, faced a tragedy of epic proportions when it lost its entire football squad, along with coaching staff, boosters and family members ...