Holy Saturday and the “Apocalypse” of Hell Guest Contributor April 11, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church 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 Cole Hartin April 10, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ministry, The Episcopal Church 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 t... Read More...
He’s Asking Your Permission Victor Austin April 9, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church 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 for you.” He is interpreting his death. He is sayi... Read More...
The Gospel of Uncleanness Guest Contributor April 9, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church 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 Elisabeth Kincaid April 8, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ministry, The Episcopal Church 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... Read More...
On Death, Grief, and Redemptive Suffering Guest Contributor April 8, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church 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 weeks in the hospital, in and out of consciousness... Read More...
Bread & Roses & Resurrection Guest Contributor April 6, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church 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 Fr. Clint Wilson April 5, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church 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...
