Religion Blog Posts

The apostle Paul loved his people, the Jews, enough to have wished himself cursed and cut off from Christ for their sake.

Many Christians are not aware of this, but the Highest Holy Day in Christianity is Passover. Not the pagan festival of Easter. The word Passover comes from the time of Moses and the last plague that consumed Egypt. When Christ died on the cross He be...

Legends are important to many of the world's people and to society in general. Legends give us powerful and benevolent figures to look up to and deviously intelligent malevolent figures to condemn (or to secretly admire). The trouble with legends, ho...

News in from Beijing Chinese President Xi Jinping has a dream. It comes in four parts: the renaissance of the Chinese race, following the Chinese road, developing the Chinese spirit and building up China’s strength. The secret lies within the jun...

I started my day hearing a mass in Nazareno Parish with my mom. It was not the ordinary mass that people used to attend to. The mass earlier was something special for it marks the start of the Easter Sunday. Easter is a Christian Festival and holiday...

News in from Beijing Chinese President Xi Jinping has a dream. It comes in four parts: the renaissance of the Chinese race, following the Chinese road, developing the Chinese spirit and building [...]...

by Melvyn Bragg   Was Mary Magdalene a saint or a prostitute? Was she, as depicted in the Four Gospels, the most favoured friend and closest disciple of Jesus Christ, forever graced by being the person he first met after his resurrection? Or was...

I bet I know what you could use the day before Easter!  Some CHOCOLATE.

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Easter Sunday is one of the most festive events among Christians worldwide. It commemorates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from death, as written in the Christian bible. We know about Lenten Season, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and mo...

Let's face it, you probably know already quite a lot about Easter thanks to the net and its main search engines, but this infographic from Smack is providing us with ten more obscure facts that you might have missed... and, as today is Easter Sunday...

I thought I was going to explain more of the symbolism of my novel today but decided to give you more of the unpublished Behind The Scenes info :-) I’ll be returning to the major symbols in future Friday posts, as well as some revelations about...

Experiments conducted by scientists at the University of Padua in northern Italy have dated the shroud to ancient times, a few centuries before and after the life of Christ. Many Catholics believe that the 14ft-long linen cloth, which bears...

Yep.  Here we go.

Philippines marks Easter with bloody mock crucifixions (via AFP) Catholic zealots in the Philippines re-enacted the last hours of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, whipping their backs and nailing themselves to crosses in a grisly Easter ritual that per...

We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee, Because by Thy Holy Cross, Thou hast redeemed the world. - Stations of the Cross (top: Charles Bridge, Prague bottom: outdoor stations, Germany)...

What with Same-Sex Marriage/Marriage Equality/DOMA on the floor of the Supreme Court this week we thought this might be an interesting little blurb to throw into a blog entry, since the opportunity and inspiration presented itself. Kismet. (<- a c...

  Francis Spufford is an English writer who happens to be christian. The following essay is his attempt at defending his version of a wishy washy and wimp-ish kind of religious faith. While I disagree with him, I very much enjoy his prose. ...

Youth Alive Easter Convention – “Heralding The Age Of Rising Star”Youth Alive Easter Convention – For any thing to move, you must apply a force, with out force Your moving from where you are to a place you desire to be would...

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