Tattoos offer permanent reminder for Holy Land pilgrims

Orthodox Christians visiting the Holy Land often return home with more than just spiritual memories. Many drop by a centuries-old tattoo parlor in Jerusalem's Old City, inking themselves with a permanent reminder not only of their pilgrimage but also of devotion to their faith. The same Jerusalem family has been...

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The Crucifixion of Jason Richwine

townhall.com (8 days ago)

Crown imperial: an aristocrat among fritillaries

At long last we've had some scintillating growth. Spring has sprung as we go rollercoaster-style into British summertime. The sap-rising energy rumbling through my veins is almost overbearingly powerful - like being on the rumbling summit of Mount Etna in the early 1980s. By far the most seductive plant in the...

guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)

Title Surprise For New Bill O'Reilly Book

Bill O'Reilly announced in February that his next book, co-written with Martin Dugard, will be titled Killing Jesus: A History, coming out in the fall. This must have come as something of a surprise to Stephen Mansfield, whose book Killing Jesus: The Unknown Conspiracy Behind the World's Most Famous Execution is...

huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)

Eastern Christians Mark Good Friday in Jerusalem

Thousands of Orthodox Christians walked on Friday along the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem, during Good Friday processions retracing what they believe was the route that Jesus Christ took to his crucifixion.

palmbeachpost.com (15 days ago)

Say Goodbye To 'The Testament Of Mary'

NEW YORK — "The Testament of Mary," which earned three Tony Award nominations, won't be around next month when they're handed out. Producers said the one-woman show by Colm Toibin that imagines the Virgin Mary's life after her son's death will close after 43 performances, a victim of poor reviews and ticket sales....

huffingtonpost.com (17 days ago)

Archaeology: A Secret History; Alex Polizzi: The Fizer Returns – TV review

This history of archaeology failed to dig as deep, or as wide, as I would likeArchaeology has some cracking stories to tell even if, of necessity, it tends to tell them rather slowly. Despite being fronted by the eager-to-please Dr Richard Miles, Archaeology – A Secret History (BBC4) did rather plod at times: mainly...

guardian.co.uk (17 days ago)

Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway

One actor alone onstage — not necessarily my idea of a good time at the theater. Yet one-person shows continue to have enormous appeal: for actors (the ultimate ego trip), for producers (less expensive to stage), and very often for critics, who find it hard to resist a showboating star. I usually do, but two...

time.com (23 days ago)

WATCH: 'Bible' Actor Was 'Haunted' By His Crucifixion Scene

Producer Mark Burnett's miniseries "The Bible" captivated more than 100 million people when it aired on the History Channel. The series was filled with dramatic moments, but perhaps the most poignant was the highly anticipated crucifixion scene. Diogo Morgado, the Portuguese actor who portrayed Jesus in "The Bible,"...

huffingtonpost.com (24 days ago)

Colm Toibin's 'Testament Of Mary' Brings Jesus' Mother Down To Earth

By Charles Austin Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) How far can one go in retelling a Bible story, adding things that are not in the original? In "The Testament of Mary," Colm Toibin goes a long way. His 2012 book is now a Broadway play presenting a view of the mother of Jesus so different from pious tradition...

huffingtonpost.com (24 days ago)

David Finkle: First Nighter: Fiona Shaw's Miraculous Testament of Mary William Christie's...

What Nikos Kazantzakis did to de-sanctify Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ, Colm Toibin has done for the Madonna in The Testament of Mary -- with, predictably, the some outraged response from various Catholic Church officials. Who'd think the reaction could be otherwise when, among other revelations in the...

huffingtonpost.com (25 days ago)

The Testament of Mary: Theater Review

Fiona Shaw portrays the title figure as a solitary woman, years after her son's crucifixion, in Colm Toibin's audacious fictional rumination on the grieving mother behind the iconic image.

hollywoodreporter.com (25 days ago)

QBAMCO On Unreserved Credit Growth And Imperial Constraint

Authored by Lee Quaintance and Paul Brodsy of QBAMCO, Imperial Constraint “Crucifixion can be discussed philosophically until they start driving the nails.”- Wallace Stegner This piece seeks to make the economic case for savers to allocate wealth to physical gold (in proper form) and for investors to allocate...

zerohedge.com (27 days ago)

Descent into chaos

After King's assassination 45 years ago, days of rioting and looting ravaged parts of Chicago. One reporter called it 'the crucifixion of a city' — and its devastating legacy lingers todayA day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago, a 4-year-old girl, abandoned and crying, stood in...

chicagotribune.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

From Harry Potter's Aunt To The Virgin Mary

NEW YORK — Fiona Shaw's small Broadway dressing room had the look of a makeshift bar. There were more than a dozen bottles of wine stashed on a high shelf. "It looks like a sort of speakeasy, doesn't it?" the actress said, looking up at the gifts left by well-wishers that were now on duty for post-show cheers. "Over...

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 5 days ago)

Inside The Weird Online World Of Oscar Pistorius' Female Fan Club

The family of murder accused Oscar Pistorius have released a statement bemoaning the tone of social media comments about the case. Part of the family's statement read: “The disregard that is being shown by some - specifically those commenting via social media - for the profound pain that Reeva’s family and friends...

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Drama students re-enact Way of the Cross to Denville Drama students re-enact Way of the Cross

On Good Friday, March 29, students at the Christian Drama School in Denville gathered to re-enact the events that led up to Jesus’ crucifixion.

northjersey.com (1 month and 7 days ago)

Martin Spinelli: Crisis And Faith: How Losing Almost Everything Can Help You See What Matters

My 4-year-old son Lio had been in a coma for more than a week. While his bed was about to be changed, I maneuvered myself around all the tubes and wires and slid my hand under his back up to his head. With my other arm under his knees, I carefully lifted him up onto my lap and sat down in the vinyl-covered chair...

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 8 days ago)

Said & Done: Jesus, Di Canio, plus players from outer space

The week in football: Jack's Easter message; Di Canio; the war on racism; plus the players from outer spaceHe is risenJack Warner – identifying an Easter parallel after headlines linked him to the FBI's inquiry into alleged Fifa corruption. "I know of no other politician who has been so crucified as I have been …...

guardian.co.uk (1 month and 11 days ago)

You've seen 'The Bible,' now read the real story

I once saw a TV preacher talking about the crucifixion, and he actually said things were in the Bible that weren't there, including details about demons flying around Calvary. I wondered if his devote

phillyburbs.com (1 month and 12 days ago)

William J. Furney: Saudi Arabia's Execution Fixation: A Blight on Mankind

Saudi Arabia, with its vast oil wealth, is among the harshest of places. The country, ruled by the House of Saud and from whence Islam sprang, is no country for women of cognizant mind, for they have no rights at all. They don't even have the casual liberty of driving a car, or blithely going outside unchaperoned....

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 13 days ago)

Robert Bullen: Artistic Home's Steamy Night of the Iguana Puts the Passion Front and Center

I'm all for firsts. And Artistic Home's very solid production of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana presented a whole world of them. It was my first time seeing any iteration of this classic Williams play, my first time seeing this well-established, small-yet-mighty ensemble, and it was the ensemble's first...

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 16 days ago)

Dissident Prof Dispatch: Common Core Teaching, Demonstrating a Crucifixion

First we have a college student ordered to stomp on a piece of paper with the word Jesus written on it. But on Holy Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education sent out this video from the Teaching Channel with a seventh-grader face-down on a table in the front of the class waving his arms and legs to illustrate a...

townhall.com (1 month and 16 days ago)

Christians celebrate Easter

Area Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion and death at Calvary as noted in the Bible. Above, The Church of Christ Uniting choir sings 8220Christ the Lord is Risen Today8221 during a morning service in Kingston. At right, bell choir members Edy Kishbaugh,...

timesleader.com (1 month and 16 days ago)

Easter Sunday message: Pope Francis makes pleas for Mideast peace

Francis shared in his flock's exuberance as they celebrated Christianity's core belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead following crucifixion. After Mass, he stepped aboard an open-topped white popemobile for a cheerful spin through the joyous crowd, kissing babies and patting children on the head.

oregonlive.com (1 month and 17 days ago)

Pope makes Easter pleas for Mideast peace

Pope Francis delivered a plea for peace in his first Easter Sunday message to the world, decrying the seemingly endless conflicts in the Middle East and on the Korean peninsula after celebrating Mass at an outdoor altar before more than 250,000 people in flower-bedecked St. Peter's Square. Francis shared in his...

pjstar.com (1 month and 17 days ago)

Pope makes Easter pleas for Mideast peace

Pope makes Easter pleas for Mideast peace by Frances D’emilio The Associated Press Published Mar 31, 2013 10:02AM MDT Vatican City • Pope Francis delivered a plea for peace in his first Easter Sunday message to the world, decrying the seemingly endless conflicts in the Middle East and on the Korean peninsula after...

sltrib.com (1 month and 17 days ago)

'The Greatest Story Ever Told' for Easter

"The Bible," History's 10-hour miniseries, concludes its run Easter night. The final two hours, starting at 8, depict Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection as well as the lives of the early disciples.

orlandosentinel.com (1 month and 17 days ago)

Pope Francis: Tens of thousands attend pontiff's first Easter Mass

Francis bowed his head in reflection as the Gospel was sung in Latin, recounting what Christians believe is the central mystery of their faith - the resurrection of Jesus after his death by crucifixion

mirror.co.uk (1 month and 17 days ago)

Pope makes Easter pleas for Mideast peace

Pope Francis delivered a plea for peace in his first Easter Sunday message to the world, decrying seemingly endless conflicts in the Middle East and on the Korean peninsula after celebrating Mass along with more than 250,000 people in flower-bedecked St. Peter's Square.Francis shared in his flock's exuberance as...

thenewstribune.com (1 month and 17 days ago)