The preacher’s weekly challenge—What story shall I tell?—is perhaps less challenging in Holy Week than at any other time except Christmas. The Passion story provides characters, plot, dynamics, and ...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- When The Great Passion Play opens tonight for its 2020 season, Jesus will try to keep his distance from the other actors. Yes, social-distancing guidelines apply even to Jesus. But ...

In 1632 amid the Thirty Years’ War, marauding Swedish troops brought the plague to the foothills of the Alps and finally reached Oberammergau. “The plague is in front of the door, and nobody wants to ...

After a two-year pandemic delay, villagers in the German town of Oberammergau are once again re-enacting the story of Jesus’s life and death, with some changes. Frederik Mayet as Jesus on the cross in ...