In the Midst of Life We are in Death: Eastertide and the Pandemic
Here we are in Easter, yet it feels more like an extended Holy Saturday.
On Death, Grief, and Redemptive Suffering
By William Yale
My mother died of pancreatic cancer at age fifty-six; I was fifteen. For ten months, she endured chemotherapy and radiation treatment, until she collapsed and was hospitalized. She spent two ... Read More...
Bread & Roses & Resurrection
Trusting dying is not giving up, it is giving to God. Death is one end, but it is not the end.
Palm Sunday and Death’s Defeat
By Clint Wilson
When they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10
Today is... Read More...
Your Funeral Is Not About You
A closed casket, the use of the pall, and matching hangings and vestments in the color of Easter visually shift the focus away from death and dead bodies to the resurrection.
Was Macbeth Right?
Macbeth cannot meet any morning with hope, so his mornings relentlessly arrive, cheerless and bleak.
Easter in Ordinary Time
There is a strange kind of overlapping that we Christians find ourselves living out in between the first advent of Christ and his eventual glorious appearing.
According to the Scriptures
The resurrection is not disconnected from the world of the Scriptures, but is rather an integral part.