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The cross calls Christians not to domination but to identification with the suffering and weak of the world. Hall’s critique is a much-needed corrective to contemporary trends in world religion.
One of the most remarkable things about Jesus’ suffering is his patience. He could have used miracles to make himself impervious to discomfort and to achieve instantaneous results, but he didn’t.
God does not will evil in its myriad manifestations but opposes it, full stop. She shares feminist worries that atonement theologies are often used to condone, legitimize, and sanctify suffering as a ...
In Jesus, we see not only the full depth of God’s passion for us and the suffering that was an essential part of it (John 3:16; Eph. 5:2) but also the full depth of perfect human passion for God ...
Could fragments of the true cross of Jesus really be among us ... When Helena traveled to Jerusalem in 326 CE the city was still suffering the destruction caused by the last Jewish War in 132 ...
Today’s sheltered youth likely don’t understand Jesus’ suffering, words of compassion A mural depicting Jesus Christ on a wall close to the peace lines, in west Belfast, Northern Ireland ...
Each Catholic church displays the 14 Stations of the Cross that depict Jesus’ journey to Calvary. ... I realized that each person there played a critical role in Jesus’ suffering.
What if Jesus’ cross really is a healing burden? John tells us, in the gospel read at the liturgy for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, that God did not send the Son to judge the world — krino, in Greek.
Jesus, played by David Madriz, is nailed to the cross in the 11th station of Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, Friday in East Chicago. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church commemorates Good Friday with the ...
The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in Homewood on Good Friday afternoon drew more than 200 believers who meditated on the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth.
Good Friday commemorates the suffering, crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth more than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. At first glance, Good Friday seems like the ultimate misnomer.