Having been raised in the church, I am quite familiar with the custom of washing feet. From what I’ve been taught and what I’ve read about it in my alone time, it’s a gesture that is popular within ...

Washing the feet of guests was a Middle Eastern tradition that went back centuries before the time of Christ. Travel was often done by foot over dry and dusty roads.Weary travelers were greeted with a ...

On Thursday evening, in a familiar reprise of an ancient rite, Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wis., will wash the feet of 12 men, all seminarians — a re-creation of Jesus’ action at the Last Supper ...

OK, so maybe you wash your feet in the shower with soap and a washcloth — or perhaps you just swish them around in the suds that trickle down your body. If you’re in the latter group, you really ...

For many homeless people, life on the streets is hard on the feet. Yet the Friday before Easter I witnessed a group of religious volunteers here doing something that I never thought imaginable—washing ...

Some people scrub them every day while others say letting water run over them in the shower is enough. So are you cleaning these important appendages enough? When you jump into the shower and reach ...

Next week I’ll have my feet washed. And I’ll wash someone’s feet. The Ekklesia Project will gather to explore the theme of The Church As Politics, addressing issues such as “the rise of nationalism ...

In hopes of meeting the needs of Muslim students, a foot-washing station was recently installed in Minnesota State University’s Centennial Student Union. “What we try to do around this building is ...

None of the 11 dismembered feet have been deemed suspicious. Aug. 31, 2011— -- Another human foot has washed ashore in British Columbia, keeping investigators on their toes in the case of 11 ...

(RNS) Pope Francis will spend Holy Thursday washing the feet of disabled people, some of them women and some perhaps non-Catholics. That upsets traditionalists, who say the rite should be restricted ...