5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (387+ words) ARTICLE: "Ten Reasons to Celebrate Ascension Day" by John Witvliet, Reformed Worship: John Witvliet, senior scholar and professor of theology, worship, and the arts at Belmont University, answers the question "Why does Ascension Day matter?" He concludes with two book…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1179+ words) Death is hard. No matter your religion and its consolations, whether you're the one dying or you're saying goodbye to someone who is or has, it's often a painful ordeal. When my paternal grandpa passed away in May 2017, I began…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago  (318+ words) On that final night, his meal was formal: lamb with bitter leaves of endive, chervil, bread with olive oil and jars of wine." Continue reading "Food for Risen Bodies II" by Michael Symmons Roberts(poem) " [Robertson, Duncan_Luke 24. 41-42]Illustration by Duncan Robertson…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (306+ words) Most of us grew up celebrating Easter Sunday like it was the finish line, the big, joyful mic drop: "He is risen!" But the church, historically, has never treated Easter as a single day. It's a whole season'Eastertide, stretching fifty…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (844+ words) LOOK: The Resurrection by Severino Blanco Severino Blanco (19512020) [previously] was a Quechua Christian artist from Ayopaya, Bolivia. His magnum opus is an extensive cycle of biblical paintings inside the chapel of the Casa del Catechista (CADECA) in Cochabamba, a center…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (282+ words) Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (437+ words) It is the day of Resurrection and an auspicious beginning. Let us be made brilliant by the feast and embrace each other. .. . Yesterday I was crucified with Christ, today I am glorified with him; yesterday I died with him, today…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (388+ words) LOOK: Magdalene: The Tomb by Greg Tricker I learned about Greg Tricker from Sister Wendy Beckett, a nun who narrated several BBC docuseries about art throughout the 1990s. In the following Piano Nobile video from 2011, Sister Wendy converses with Tricker at…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (411+ words) However, the longer ending is quoted regularly by ecclesiastical writers, including from the patristic era, and became the almost universal ending of Mark in later manuscripts. Although it contains a few unique emphases, it is consistent with the rest of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (309+ words) The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle[dove] is heard in our land. "Song of Solomon 2: 12 (KJV) LOOK: Mann mit V'geln by Max Hunziker LISTEN: "The…...