It is not simply Christ outstretched on the cross of shame. But it is the Lord Jesus Christ who has died, been buried, who has risen again, and who is even now at the right hand of God in Heaven.

Robert Griffin III’s Jesus ‘on the cross’ line didn’t go over well during LSU-Ole Miss By . Bryan Fonseca. Published Oct. 1, 2023, 4:38 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

On the cross, when Jesus dies, the Spirit, who is the great sinew, holding together Father and Son, creation and its creator, is expelled from the Son. In breathing out the Spirit, God is sundered ...

He contends that Jesus being crucified “in the middle” between two thieves in John 19:18 means that “If you’re looking for the real Jesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan ...

Good Friday, NCR's Michael Sean Winters writes, reminds us that Jesus did not only confront injustice and sin but death itself, and he did all this on our behalf. Before the cross, we do not ...

The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness. Jesus on the cross was the poorest man in the world.

Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.

“Jesus walks to the cross, dies on the cross, so our soul can smile,” he said. Follow Elise Ann Allen on Twitter: @eliseannallen. Share. Latest Stories ...

As we embrace the multifaceted historical realities of Black History Month, it is not irony but ethnic reality that calls our attention to those passages of scripture in Mark 15:21 and Luke 23:26.

The slowness to depict Jesus on a cross was not about a general sensibility to the visual arts, although they do seem to have been very selective in what they did portray.