Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni? Or, in English, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This lament of Jesus (Matthew 27:35-44) as he faces death is a quotation from one of King David’s psalms, Psalm 22, where David says the…

For Christians, Holy Week truly is the most holy week of the year. Or at least it should be. The only period of comparable significance is Christmas, which the secular culture celebrates as one day but is really a season…

Few Christmas films merit a yearly watch. The ones that do are mostly children’s cartoons: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol — network broadcasts played and replayed until they became unquestioned tradition.  There…

Good Friday is the day Christians commemorate the execution of Jesus the Christ by a particularly brutal means. It’s the reason we still have the cross as a widespread symbol, long after that method of capital punishment has been outlawed…

One didn’t have to be a golf fan to know something of Tiger Woods’s troubles when they became the subject of tabloids more than a decade ago. A man who appeared to have everything, his whole world seemed to come…

The best defense is a good offense; this widely acknowledged sports axiom applies to most other spheres of human activity. There is always the exception, but just think a little and you will acknowledge the old tried and true holds….

We interrupt all otherwise necessary talk of political revenge for and repeal of Obamasnare medicine because of an even more traumatic event that happened 1,980 years ago, give or take a year or three. A man back then who was suffering and…