1. Embrace daily denial of self: Evaluate your life and ask where you need to surrender personal desires in favor of ...

A Virginia Beach priest used his harrowing experience to create a book to look at how near-death experiences can transform ...

Though the Bible says a lot about Jesus Christ, it says very little about what he actually looked like. And it took centuries ...

Despite soaring to a new all-time high of $108,288 on December 17th, Bitcoin has retraced 15% in just a few days, which is a ...

Several well-known personalities have joined our scene to wish The Island readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Yes ...

Santa didn't always wear red, and in fact, his outfits, appearance and height took nearly a century to become the iconic ...

The rite of opening the Holy Doors of the main basilicas of Rome to inaugurate the 2025 Jubilee Year is perhaps one of the ...

Now back on display after a decade of restoration work, the Italian mannerist Parmigianino's "huge" altarpiece "The Vision of ...

The scholar Elaine Pagels discusses her research about ancient accounts suggesting that Jesus’ father might have been a Roman ...

The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad's ouster earlier this month are in Damascus to hold ...

The enigmatic story of Kea Tawana and her visionary, defiant ark is the basis of a poetic theater piece at Theatre Exile.

The story in Matthew’s gospel, that the rumor of a new-born king produced a violent reaction, feels typical of Herod: just in ...