During the long Gospel reading on Sunday, we heard about Jesus and Barabbas, and the choice that Pilate outsources to the angry crowd. It's a dramatic scene; and it reinforces the cruelty and ...

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 ...

It is one of the most dramatic moments in the story of Good Friday. A crowd gathers outside the Roman governor's palace. The air is tense, voices rising, choices narrowing. On one side stands Jesus ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...