“God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” – Roman 5.8 On Good Friday, Christians remember the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of the world. Here is a visual meditation on this great mystery...
Palm Sunday is the day Christians remember Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem the week before his passion, death, and resurrection. Palm Sunday, of course, means getting palms at church. And getting palms at church means weaving cool things! [See also: How to Make a Cross Out of Your Palm...
The Book of Kells (also known as the “Book of Columba) is one of the great masterpieces of Irish Christian culture. It’s a copy of the four Gospels in Latin with beautiful, intricate illuminations. But despite its renown, not much is known about its origins. Most historians date its...
Kenneth Branagh’s “Cinderella” is the most surprising Hollywood movie of the year so far. I say this because the director manages to tells the familiar fairy tale without irony, hyper-feminist sub-plots, Marxist insinuations, deconstructionist cynicism, or arch condescension. In so doing, he actually allows the spiritual, indeed specifically Christian,...
A few years ago there was a controversy brewing in Tacoma, Washington because the Tacoma Art Museum wanted to show the work of an artist named David Wojnarowicz. Specifically, they want to show a video montage he put together that was pulled by the Smithsonian because it was too offensive....
Just like we don’t know what Jesus looked like, we don’t know what His mother Mary looked like either. [See also: 6 of the Oldest Images of Our Lord Jesus Christ] Not counting the many, many images that people claim were painted by St. Luke, the earliest image...
