Crucifixion remains a familiar idea, even though it’s a punishment from the distant past. It’s so familiar that we no longer consider of the physical realities of it. Those realities are some of the ...

If you stop and think about it, the Christian message is utterly out of sync with what human beings would expect. That the Son of the All-Powerful and Ever-Living God would allow himself to be ...

“Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the ...

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction Sunday in Versailles. The painting was ...

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Crucifixion: The act of putting to death by nailing or binding the hands and feet to a cross. This brutal method of execution that has become synonymous with torture is the ...

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For Christians around the world Easter is the most important festival of the year – the time when they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yet it can't be understood without knowing what went ...

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