Holy Week offers a strange image -- the image of a nonviolent leader who comes to abolish war once and for all and proclaim peace to the whole world. Is this really the kind of messiah we want?
Curiously, there are more than thirty Zechariahs in the Old Testament yet only one mentioned in the New Testament. This New Testament Zechariah was recorded by Luke as having been a very good and holy ...
The Gospel reading for December 19 contains the familiar story of Zechariah in the temple. You can read it here. It is the occasion when the Angel Gabriel appears to him to announce the birth of John ...