Despite all the chaos of 2025, I accomplished something I'd not accomplished before: Completion of a "Bible in a Year" plan.

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the messiah, the ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind, who would vanquish evil, oppression, and falsehood once and for all. In that sense, Jesus is the ...

"I think these opportunities that we have in front of us in 2026 can be fruitful if we are setting the goals with the right ...

The Hindus believe Brahma to be the creator of the universe, the eternal God, and as such, Islam believes in Allah, Judaism in Jehovah, and Christians believe in Jesus Christ as the eternal God and ...

John 1:17: “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” In the fall of 1991, I was teaching ...

Tackling this culminating challenge in the company of his beloved Beatrice, who inspired the poem, Dante must trasumanar, a ...

I have always been connected to theatre throughout my life. The pinnacle of this for me was when I was commissioned to write and perform a piece based on my novel *Flying in Silence* for the Sydney ...

Bowie’s heartbreaking Lazarus was a rumination on the imminent end of a life lived to the full - and a lesson in how to ...

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Your old columnist finds it hard to see the why of resistance to Jewish believers in our beloved USofA. Southwest Nebraska has only a small Jewish population, a reflection of settlement patterns ...

In his homily on the Feast of the Holy Family, the Bishop of Plymouth, Bishop Nicholas Hudson reflected on how "very fitting" ...