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White Crucifixion” marked the start of a series of paintings in which he envisioned Christ as an emblem of Jewish persecution ...

Lori Vallow Daybell is scheduled to go on trial again in early June, accused in a plot to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the ...

And any reader of the New Testament knows that this is what Jesus did in the homeland, in the Galilee, entering the synagogues on the Sabbath and expounding the scriptures. And of course ...

Luis Antonio Tagle’s rendition of John Lennon’s Imagine might not inspire devotion, but he is beloved by Catholics in his ...

This is a kind of iconography that appears to have been terribly determinative in the early iconography of Mary and Jesus. LINK BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND CIVIC LIFE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Religion in the ...

This surprisingly entertaining film examines the 1975 fiscal crisis that nearly led the city to bankruptcy. The movie’s conclusions remain relevant today. By Alissa Wilkinson Tom Hardy is a ...

I had a chance to talk with the delightful Alyson Palmer of BETTY about life, activism, allyship and BETTY's upcoming show at ...

Public school officials in the small Kansas town of Chanute are trying to find a new home for a portrait of Jesus Christ after a civil liberties group demanded its removal from the town's middle ...

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