How the Black Plague Made the Shroud of Turin a Beloved Relic
Just as the faithful clung to religious iconography — whether true relic or icon — during pestilent periods in the Middle Ages, relics remain relevant to the hopeful in the modern era.
Beloved community built on spiritual, biblical foundations
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Lecturer says Bible shaped MLK’s ‘beloved community’
ABILENE, Texas — The beloved community — an ideal that shaped the American civil rights movement — was built upon the Bible, Emmanuel McCall stressed during the annual Maston Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University's Logsdon School of Theology.