Christian Burial: Dividing up Cremains and other Troubling Habits By Calvin Lane Over the past generation American Christians, including and perhaps especially Episcopalians, have increasingly favored cremation over casket burial. This shift has happened for a variety of r... Read More...
From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake counties north of San Francisco, merging into what be... Read More...
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great By Hannah Matis On Christmas Day, Pixar released on Disney+ another of its gorgeous, bittersweet, complicated creations. In the tradition of Inside Out and Coco, this one is called Soul, and concerns one junior high school teacher and jazz musician’s advent... Read More...
Ten Theological Theses on COVID-19 and the Providence of God By Cole Hartin At the risk of adding to the influx of handwringing and punditry on all things coronavirus, I want stake out ten theological theses that might orient the way Christians think through the times... Read More...
Where to Look for New Life By Wesley Hill During the afternoon of Maundy Thursday, as I sat writing in my office, the sun burst through the colorless gauze that had been hanging over Pittsburgh for most of Holy Week. I quickly checked... Read More...
The Quiet of Eastertide By Deanna Briody The first Easter morning dawned without bells. No one was singing. Jesus’s disciples were holed away, stricken with grief, shocked and terrified by the horrific events of the Friday before. All was lost. They had left their jobs, their repu... Read More...
In the Midst of Life We are in Death: Eastertide and the Pandemic Here we are in Easter, yet it feels more like an extended Holy Saturday.
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...
