Had Gov. Jeff Landry been in church with me on a recent Sunday, he would have heard the message, Ten Commandments versus two commandments. Since he wasn’t, I’ll recap. In Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus ...

It’s a new year, and with that comes the long-time tradition of making a list of resolutions and the relatively new advent of choosing a word of the year. Everyone’s resolutions and words are ...

In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches that the greatest commandments are love of God and love of neighbor. Illustrating this event in religious art is a challenge because, as I’ve noted before, when Jesus ...

The Supreme Court has not ordered the immediate removal of all Ten Commandments displays from government buildings, or from the lawns outside those buildings. In fact, its ruling Monday in two cases ...

Did you know there are over 1000 “commandments” in the New Testament? That is almost twice as many as the religious Jews identified from their Torah (first five books of the Old Testament – 613 of ...

Once again, the Pharisees want to trap Jesus. Matthew 22 is full of controversies. After opening with the parable of the wedding feast and the man without a wedding garment, there follow four separate ...

A recent letter to editor, asking what's wrong with displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms, said that "it is about time that Christians be put on an even footing." The last time I looked, the ...

On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled that certain government displays of the Ten Commandments were permitted by the Constitution, while other displays were not. As commentators explained the ...