Christian leaders stress that the council and its anniversary still have relevance in the modern day, despite theological ...

While they have become a national treat, the crisscross pattern on the top of hot cross buns tells of its Christian past. Now, historians say the cross on hot cross buns predates the Christian ...

Displaying wealth and pride is antithetical to Christian ... free—spiritually and morally—so that people could live in truth and worship God sincerely. Udofia believes the message of Easter ...

Religious minorities are still wary, however, about the new leaders’ commitment to inclusivity. Easter celebrations ... Purple banners and crosses festooned the neighborhood on Good Friday ...

Easter celebrates ... prevailing religious leaders, who then pressured the civil authorities to do away with him. They had him arrested. He was beaten and then crucified on a cross.

“If it seems that we are more Roman than Christian ... Easter is ultimately about the empty tomb and its promise of resurrection. But before the resurrection, there was the cross, which was ...

Easter wasn’t just a holiday-it was a Christian ritual, involving interesting candy choices, poorly tailored clothing, and an annual inner-psychological struggle brought on by the Stations of the ...

Location: Amphitheater at Lake Junaluska Cross (North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska, NC 28745) Time/Date: Sunday, April 20 at 7 a.m. First Christian ... is hosting a free easter egg hunt on ...

Over time, the Christian view of the bread marked with the cross shifted to focus on Jesus’ crucifixion and became associated with Easter. By the Middle Ages, many bakers only kept the cross on ...

The name “Eostre” is where we get the English word “Easter”. Over time, some of these springtime bread traditions blended with Christian customs. Early Christians started marking bread with a cross to ...

Others who have long professed Christian faith have become ... the apostle Paul wrote that the Easter message — of a dying God on a cross, and an implausible return from the dead — was not ...

A giant Christian cross is set to go up in downtown Chicago just in time for the Easter holiday. Chicago’s Daley Plaza ... Help keep The Christian Post free for everyone. By making a recurring ...