Perhaps you’ve heard the ancient parable from India about the blind men and the elephant. In a small village several blind men heard that an elephant had been brought to their village and never having ...

“What is truth?” It’s the question Pontius Pilate asked Jesus right before he condemned Jesus to death. Fast forward some 2,000 years—it’s the same question many are asking in a culture where truth is ...

It can’t have been easy for Pontius Pilate—Roman governor of a fairly minor province. This wouldn’t have been the most plumb of political appointments, right on the edge of things, responsible for a ...

A year ago, I began my Lenten column with Pilate's expansive, existential question to the sentenced Christ: "What is truth?" Back in the church season in which we grapple with the paradoxical salvific ...

Dante puts Pontius Pilate in the outermost circle of Hell, among the indolent—scant punishment, you might think, for the man who executed Jesus Christ. By letting Pilate off easy, Dante was situating ...

Rejoicing in the Easter glow, I hesitate to look back to two figures instrumental in the Passion and Death of the Lord, but I often get questions or comments about Judas and Pilate that demonstrate ...

This three-part article examines the evidence against three men pivotal in the death of Jesus. Was it an execution or murder, and who was responsible? No trial or execution in history has had such a ...