2+ day, 6+ hour 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…...

6+ day, 4+ hour 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+ week, 4+ hour 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+ week, 1+ day 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+ week, 2+ day 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+ week, 3+ day 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+ week, 4+ day 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (229+ words) LOOK: The Resurrection, from an Ethiopian Gospel book Chained at Christ's feet are personifications of Death (a pale corpse) and Hell (a winged, horned devil), derived from Revelation 1: 1718, where Christ says, "I am the First and the Last and the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (344+ words) Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Happy Easter, friends. LOOK: Crucifixion sur la ville and R'surrection by Arcabas The left panels portray Jesus being crucified outside the city walls. But the cityscape is not of first-century Jerusalem; it's a…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (160+ words) What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps. .. "Epiphanius of Cyprus, "The Lord's Descent into Hell" Ours is the long day's journey of the…...