A recent Newsweek story began with an exhortation from the Reverend Dr. Kenneth L. Samuel, a preacher in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, who urged his congregation to vote in the upcoming midterm ...

COMMENTARY: There are many illustrations of this difficult-to-accept reality of sin, but one of the clearest, and most actual, is with regard to sexual morality. "Give Us Barabbas” — an illustration ...

The Reelz miniseries, with a standout performance from Billy Zane, manages to be a more interesting recounting of the Resurrection story than Mark Burnett's stilted "The Bible." By Allison Keene ...

Barabbas started an insurrection against the Roman occupiers. The people of Jerusalem expected Jesus to be a warrior and political operator. Instead, he told them not to give in to revenge, but to ...

“We Want Barabbas” (1850), by Honore Daumier, in Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. (Photo by DeAgostini / Getty Images) They note that during major Jewish festivals in Jerusalem, the Roman governor, ...

When I got the job, some years ago, as director of a re-entry program for men and women being released from prison, a friend called to say, "I will pray to St. Barabbas for your success." St. Barabbas ...

According to the Bible, there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem which allowed a crowd to commute a prisoner's death sentence. When Pontius Pilate asked, they chose Barabbas to be released.

A recent Newsweek story began with an exhortation from the Reverend Dr. Kenneth L. Samuel, a preacher in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, who urged his congregation to vote in the upcoming midterm ...