The “Give us Barabbas” meme is clearly intended as a jab at voters who opted for a repugnant leader over presumably far better options. But such framing calls to mind the same judgments embedded in ...

Barabbas: TV Review. The Reelz miniseries, with a standout performance from Billy Zane, manages to be a more interesting recounting of the Resurrection story than Mark Burnett's stilted "The Bible." ...

Barabbas would have been chained to a stone wall on a deeper level, in a dank cell, pitch-black but for torches the guards carried. Imagine him suddenly being unchained and dragged into the sunlight.