When my son John was about 10 or 11, we took karate together. Every Saturday, we’d head to Lexington from Mount Sterling for our weekly class. My memory has a great many gaping holes in it, but ...

Dismas tells Jesus to “remember me when you come into your kingdom,” while he is dying on his own cross, to which Jesus replies: “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise ...

Gently but firmly correcting their perception of “success,” Jesus invites them to remember what is truly important.

The Cross of Jesus is a cosmic event. The world is darkened, when the Son of God is given up to death. The earth trembles. And on the Cross, the Church of the Gentiles is born.

The slowness to depict Jesus on a cross was not about a general sensibility to the visual arts, although they do seem to have been very selective in what they did portray.

Shepherd’s inquisitive words of that hymn depict a great challenge to every soul, regardless of their ethnic origin: “Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free?

Spin-kicking for Jesus, and other karate moves in our spiritual lives | Opinion. Paul Prather. September 26, 2024 at 9:51 AM. Copied; When my son John was about 10 or 11, we took karate together.