Like Saul of Tarsus, I greatly anticipated my arrival in Damascus, an ancient city even in his day. Of course, I was not coming to persecute Christians, as was his intent. My aim was to retrace his ...

Saint Paul’s entire life can be explained in terms of one experience which was the meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus. In one moment, he realized that the zeal of his dynamic personality had ...

A Jewish scholar named Saul was persecuting Jewish followers of Jesus Christ. But Jesus intervened (as only He can). He unleashed His heavenly power on Saul, who converted to believing that Jesus was ...

Consider a fitting Easter follow up story. Lord George Lyttleton (1709-1773) was a graduate of Oxford University, a prolific poet, and member of British Parliament. He and his equally esteemed friend, ...

There were several plot threads in this latest episode of A.D. The Bible Continues, but the biggest and most significant by far concerns Saul, the great persecutor of the Church who unexpectedly ...

ArtSpot Productions' The Road to Damascus is a solo performance that uses the story of Saul, or St. Paul’s conversion experience, as a metaphor for awakening to the persecutorial nature of white ...

The question “Was Paul saved on the road to Damascus?” would be easy for most people to answer if they were familiar with the Bible. Upon reading and studying Acts 9:1-18 (cf. Acts 22:6-13), it has ...

Known as Saul the Butcher, the stoning of Stephen was said to have shattered Saul's faith in the Temple and its denial of Christ as the Messiah. His conversion to Christianity and baptism as Paul ...

Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of teachings on St. Paul Sept. 3, focusing on Paul’s dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus. The ultimate source of our own conversion does not lie in ...