Over at First Things, Raymond J. de Souza offers a brief history of Good Friday in the United States. Here is a taste: In most Christian-majority countries, Good Friday is a federal holiday—but not in the United States, even though...
On the Christian calendar, Good Friday is a day we solemnly remember the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2020...
Historian Jon Meacham‘s latest book is titled The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross. In his recent op-ed at The New York Times he argues that “religion is the best hope against Trump.” Here is...
I don’t make it to Messiah College chapel as much as I would like or should. But yesterday morning I went to see Tony Campolo. It was part evangelical inspiration and part evangelical nostalgia, but I loved the fact that...
In case you haven’t seen it all over social media, today is the 152st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. It is also Good Friday. Lincoln was killed on Good Friday in 1865, making today one of those years when the...
