It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and brutality Caesar Augustus had been championing.

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.

Answer: Both were assassinated. Both were age 56. And Lincoln’s death — at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. — happened 160 years ago today. How does revenge shape our politics and relationships? How ...