Now, before you spit out your coffee, fall out of your chair, and dump all the chocolate eggs out of your Easter baskets so that you can pick up your stones, allow me to explain. I do not intend to disparge Easter at all...
In the center of the photograph, an injured young woman lies on a stretcher. Her face is dusted in ash. Her left hand cradles her pregnant stomach. Men armed with rifles and wearing bulletproof vests carry her through the smoldering rubble of a maternity hospital hit by a Russian airstrike....
When speaking of the Holy Land recent popes, including Paul VI and Benedict XVI, have referred to it as the “Fifth Gospel.” Indeed, this is the place where millions of faithful have come to see with their own eyes where Jesus prayed, walked and suffered....
The shattering final shot in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, while it is among the most celebrated closing shots in cinema history, was not the original ending envisioned by Coppola....
As a Colombian with Lebanese heritage, I grew up in a Christian context where there were no female pastors, only pastors’ wives. In my culture, men cooking and helping in the kitchen was perceived as wrong, and women were expected to carry the responsibility and burden of taking care of the domestic chores....
