WASHINGTON (AP) — A coach who crosses himself before a game. A math teacher reads the Bible aloud before the bell rings. A coach who hosts an after-school Christian group in their home.Those were some of the scenarios Supreme Court justices discussed Monday while hearing arguments about a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Shopping for Passover on a recent day at a kosher supermarket in the Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, Moshe Werzberger worried about how inflation is driving up prices during one of the most important holidays for Jews. “It affects us very ...
April is an intriguing month as we consider matters of faith and the world’s three dominant religious expressions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In Christianity, April 17th marked the occasion as the world’s one billion followers observed the Feast of the Resurrection of Jesus of ...
Easter’s message of renewal will be especially poignant this year for four U.S. congregations rebounding from disasters. Their churches were destroyed by a tornado in Kentucky, gutted by a blaze in New York City, shattered when Hurricane Ida hit the Louisiana coast, and filled with smoke ...
As Christians, we stand during Holy Week, considered by many to be the most sacred week in the Christian calendar. In some ways, one could view it as a week sandwiched between two Sundays of celebration: Palm Sunday and then, of course, Easter Sunday. We remember the triumphal entry of Christ ...
I do not know about you, but I am always anxious to wipe the carbon smear off my forehead after Ash Wednesday. A black smudge on the forehead has yet to make a fashion statement; instead it marks you as a church goer or a religious nut. Although Ash Wednesday is over and its carbon imprint washed away, we still can not get away from it because Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday are uniquely linked together. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent for many Christians. On this day, we hear the words, “From dust you come and to dust you return,” as the pastor dips his or her fingers into ...
