Death Cafés and the Resurrection of the Body By Hannah Armidon Among many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world was an increasing sense of mortality. This was very evident in the circles of the internet that I frequent. Some had loved ones die.... Read More...
The Hour Glass of Time and Emptying Nests By Steve Rice My daughter is moving into college this month. Emotionally, I’m okay (so far), but my mind is really confused. I don’t know how so many years have gone by so quickly. I can remember the taste o... Read More...
To Set Our Sights on the Cross By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we remember our mortality, our limits, and our utter reliance upon God. It’s also a good time to think about death because we can frame o... Read More...
Dust and Ashes By Joseph Mangina "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So run the familiar words spoken during the imposition of ashes in the liturgy for Ash Wednesday. They echo the LORD’s words to A... Read More...
From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake counties north of San Francisco, merging into what be... Read More...
Divine Irreplaceability By Ephraim Radner One of the most difficult things I have done as a pastor is to stand beside people as they face a terrible problem’s irresolvability. I’ve felt guilty, even, in enabling a person’s admission of the irreparable character of something horrib... Read More...
Ten Theological Theses on COVID-19 and the Providence of God By Cole Hartin At the risk of adding to the influx of handwringing and punditry on all things coronavirus, I want stake out ten theological theses that might orient the way Christians think through the times... Read More...
What an Early Anglican Can Teach Us about Sickness Today By Angela Heetderks It’s tempting, in times of scientific uncertainty, to think we have nothing to learn from Christians in the distant past. We would not wish to consult Christians from earlier eras on ques... Read More...
