The whole book is told from the perspective of this criminal—already in heaven—looking back on the last day of his life. He walks us through the hours, his crimes, his mocking, his moment of clarity, ...

It’s the moment when the thief realizes how close he came to missing everything. He was right there. Just a few feet from the ...

For more than 20 years, Father Raymond de Souza has preached the “Seven Last Words” devotion, a traditional meditation on the ...

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

The Roman soldiers were stamping so vehemently, you could feel vibrations through the floor. They nailed Jesus to the cross and roughly brought forward two thieves to crucify, one on each side.

For me, there are three themes that I draw out of our tradition and that I emphasize in my preaching: solidarity, empathy and ...

58. “‘Sir’, they said, ‘We remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ ...

The thief on the cross next to Jesus ... to understand and believe that Christ’s cross did not negate his coming kingdom. At the climax of Jesus’ supposed weakness and shame, Dismas recognizes ...

When he arrived at Christ Episcopal Church, a suburban congregation outside Cleveland, in September 2024, the Rev. Charles Graves IV said, one of his first encounters with a parishioner was a word ...

Easter, quite simply, is the observance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Many people have different ideas ...