By Jack Brammer Kentucky Lantern On a sun-splashed late morning Tuesday, former Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jerry Lundergan, along with his wife, Charlotte, and several others, heaped shovelfuls ...

Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jerry Lundergan and his wife, Charlotte, helped break ground for a religious garden ...

When the poet Randall Jarrell penned his classic World War II poem, “Eighth Air Force,” he invoked the image of Pontius ...

As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...

WHEN Pontius Pilate presented the crowd with a choice to free Jesus of Nazareth or Barabbas, a known criminal, the people ...

The issue of idolatry in the form of the state claiming ultimate lordship and sovereignty over the lives of subjects came to the fore in the early church. The Roman state had made claims for the ...

What is the secret of Pope Leo’s popularity? In less than a month, he seems to have brought something fresh to this most ...

The Bible recounts how a Roman soldier pierced Jesus' side with a spear during the crucifixion to confirm his death, but it ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted ...

But it was Pontius Pilate, the authoritarian Roman ruler of Judaea, who conducted the trial of Jesus and was legally responsible for his crucifixion. That trial involved a bizarre ritual in which ...

Yet even after this mockery of a trial, Pontius Pilate seemed incapable of escaping the truth now that he came face to face with him. He commanded the sign to be erected above Jesus proclaiming ...