Asian Spectator

Men's Weekly

.

Holy Week starts off with lots of palms – but Palm Sunday's donkey is just as important to the story

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
Holy Week starts off with lots of palms – but Palm Sunday's donkey is just as important to the storyA man chooses a palm cross to buy on Palm Sunday near a church in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2022.Javier Campos/NurPhoto via Getty Images

For the Catholic Church and many other Christian denominations, the Sunday before Easter marks the beginning of the most important week of the year – “Holy Week,” when Christians reflect on central...

More Articles ...

  1. Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, showing he, like all other presidents, is not an imperial king
  2. Trump indictment won't keep him from presidential race, but will make his reelection bid much harder
  3. Archaeology and genomics together with Indigenous knowledge revise the human-horse story in the American West
  4. In Turkey, women are feeling the worst aftershocks of the earthquake disaster – this disparity may lead to dwindling trust in government
  5. MLK’s vision of social justice included religious pluralism – a house of many faiths
  6. 3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms that blow today's buildings out of the water
  7. Dalai Lama identifies the reincarnation of Mongolia's spiritual leader – a preview of tensions around finding his own replacement
  8. Can this former CEO fix the World Bank and solve the world's climate finance and debt crises as the institution's next president?
  9. This course uses science fiction to understand politics
  10. As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip-hop professor explains what the word 'dope' means to him

Magazine

‘Slow science’ lebih cocok untuk riset bidang sosial humaniora di Indonesia

● ‘Slow science’ perlu diterapkan untuk melawan tren “menyampah” (‘junkification’) dalam riset dan publikasi ilmiah.● Riset sosial humaniora membutuhkan...

Blunder Dewan Perdamaian cerminan diplomasi nirkaidah ala Prabowo

Presiden Prabowo Subianto dan sejumlah kepala negara lainnya duduk bersama usai menandatangani Board of Peace (BoP) Charter yang diinisiasi oleh Presiden Amerika Serikat Donald Trump di Davos, Swiss, ...

Bahaya normalisasi doksing: Warganet bisa kebablasan jadi ‘hakim’ moral

(Kenary820/Shutterstock)● Warganet kerap melakukan ‘doxing’ dan merasa berhak menghukum orang yang menurut mereka bersalah.● Doksing merupakan pelanggaran privasi dan termasuk ...