When Simon of Cyrene enters Jerusalem, he is intent on murder. The biblical witness doesn’t state this as a fact, but we need to pull a few threads to see how it all unravels. Simon is the man whom ...

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 ...

In the New Testament narratives of the Crucifixion, you make only one appearance, one that is brief but meaningful: you were selected to help Jesus carry his cross. In Matthew’s Gospel (27:32), we ...

Cliff Stewart didn’t just close out the Holy Week Luncheon Series Friday, he went out a winner. All week, Felicia Hopkins, pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church, had timed the sermons of the five ...

Matthew 27:27-34 tells us that Jesus could only carry His cross a short distance and Simon of Cyrene was ordered to carry it the rest of the way. What would you have done; if you had been the one?

The role Simon the Cyrene played in the passion narratives in Matthew, Mark, and Luke is familiar to many Christians. Matthew mentions him by name, his country of origin, Cyrene (in present day Libya) ...