3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (142+ words) The Procession to Calvary by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (public domain) For a period in northern Renaissance art, painters liked to zoom out from the Passion story to create a vast tableau. They painted ambitious, dramatic landscapes with swirling crowds…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (263+ words) Marjorie Maddox's vital disquiet Her poems weave stories of trauma and survivorship, dancing on the frail and fraying edges of memory and perception. Thus begins a collection that weaves stories of intergenerational trauma and survivorship, dancing on the frail and…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (165+ words) The war in Iran underscores what was already evident: Trump goes on instinct, and his instinct is to dominate others. One of the stark divides in American culture is how we frame problems and assign blame: to individuals, their character…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (325+ words) Stigmata assert identity and collective memory through self-scarred skin. What if we read the Thomas story through a tattoo hermeneutic? A Chin woman in Myanmar with traditional facial tattoos (intek1 / iStock Editorial / Getty) That said, a shared vocabulary can be a…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (98+ words) Prison Chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and Practicing Life in Prisons Patrick M. Tugwell is a doctoral student in religious studies and works as a hospice and palliative care chaplain in Santa Barbara, California. This review was produced in partnership with the Narrative…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (131+ words) by Benjamin J. Dueholm The problem with a Christological reading of this story is that it places the church in the place of the Hebrews while obscuring the ways we might identify instead with Pharaoh, his armies, and his gods. As…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (998+ words) Israel apologizes after barring cardinal from Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday Following outcry from political and religious leaders for barring Catholic leaders in the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Israeli authorities apologized…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (998+ words) Israel apologizes after baring cardinal from Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday Following outcry from political and religious leaders for barring Catholic leaders in the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Israeli authorities apologized…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (427+ words) Church leaders decry closing of Church of the Holy Sepulchre "The two were stopped en route, while proceeding privately and without any characteristics of a procession or ceremonial act, and were compelled to turn back," said a statement from the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (415+ words) There is no holy war As missiles rained down on Tehran on February 28th, prominent evangelical Jack Graham tweeted: "May God give our military total victory as we liberate the Persian people and end decades of oppression and terror in the…...