The debate about the authenticity of a Rubens's masterpiece "Samson and Delilah" will be reignited next week with the release of a book alleging the painting hanging in London's National Gallery ...

A long-standing debate over the authenticity of a work by 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens at the National Gallery in London has reignited with a new book that claims the ...

This Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, the Sunday before the season of Lent begins. On this day, many churches will tell the story of Jesus on a mountain with three trusted disciples. Suddenly, Jesus ...

It’d be easy enough to focus on one of the other texts assigned for Transfiguration Sunday. Or to skip to verse 17, where the beautiful part begins, and to focus on how we are transformed by moments ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Brazilian novelist Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the author of the book that served as the basis for the film, “I ...

A spokesman for the National Gallery said: “Samson and Delilah has long been accepted by leading Rubens scholars as a masterpiece by Peter Paul Rubens. Painted on wood panel in oil shortly after ...

Concerns over whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah picture in the National Gallery have been reignited by new evidence. The painting depicts the Old Testament story where Israelite ...

The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for the last Sunday before Lent in this Year C is Luke 9.28–36, this gospel’s account of the Transfiguration, with the option of continuing to read the episode ...

What might change if we could see something up there greater than the suffering world below? If we could get a glimpse of heaven, we would have proof—an experience that we could refer back to for the ...

Owner Daniel Britt is working with eco_logic studio on the plan to secure Transfiguration Church. Significant portions of the church’s roof collapsed during a windstorm last November.