George Floyd and Simon of Cyrene: De Profundis By Clint Wilson What would I have done if I were there? Can you imagine what it would have been like to be present, to stumble upon the local law enforcement taking one more criminal to his appointed end?... Read More...
Holy Saturday and the “Apocalypse” of Hell By Hannah Bowman Holy Saturday liturgically commemorates Jesus’s descent into hell, or descent to the dead: an ambiguously interpreted tradition that found its way from a few obscure references in the New Te... Read More...
Death is Staring Us Down By Cole Hartin People will tell me that the reality of death so far exceeds the thought that when we actually get there, all our fine fencing amounts to nothing. Let them say so: there is no doubt whatsoever that meditating on it beforehand confers great adva... Read More...
He’s Asking Your Permission By Victor Lee Austin None of the disciples refused the cup or the bread. But they could have. “This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.” He says, “This is my body which is given ... Read More...
The Gospel of Uncleanness By Hannah Armidon The Old Testament was doing social distancing before it was cool. Pick up a dead animal? Forget washing your hands — take a whole bath, wash your clothes, and you’re unclean until evening. ... Read More...
Life in the Shadow of the Cross By Elisabeth Kincaid In his sermon for the sixth Sunday of Lent in Parochial and Plain Sermons, preached on April 9, 1841, John Henry Newman describes the cross of Christ as the measure of the world, the key for the true interpretation of life: His cross h... Read More...
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.
