Over two thousand years, the church has developed some excellent traditions to help us benefit from this time. Here are the top four.

Ash Wednesday is officially here! The Christian season of Lent — the 6-week period that leads up to Easter — starts. What we ...

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The season lasts for 40 days, ending during Holy Week, the final week before Easter. In the Roman Catholic Church, Lent ends on Holy Thursday, or April 17, 2025. For Protestant denominations, the last ...

The Jewish holiday of Passover comes with a number of food restrictions, the most famous of which is no leavened bread. But (kosher) meat? That's fair game — unless you are vegetarian or vegan. Some ...

Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many ...

Draymond Green is a six-foot-six-inch powerhouse player on the Golden State Warriors. For his many fights, fouls and floppings (pretending to be fouled), he was indefinitely suspended by the NBA.