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.
According to the Scriptures
The resurrection is not disconnected from the world of the Scriptures, but is rather an integral part.
The Bears Return, the Wonder of the Wild
For all the dangers that await the average person in the Canadian Wilderness, the bear holds the symbolic center.
The Dead, Divided Church of Holy Saturday
Our hopes for the Church do not rest on human perfection but on divine grace.
Lazarus and the Resurrection of a Boy with Down Syndrome
Jesus wept, this little boy played, but the result was the same: death was transformed into an occasion of resurrection hope.
Fear at the Resurrection
It’s a little uncomfortable, perhaps even embarrassing, that the disciples were afraid on Easter Day.
Facing death with Christian hope
If Jesus died was raised to life, then something akin to overturning the law of gravity has been unleashed.