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New Life (Day of Pentecost, Year B)

We must all at some time feel this: “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely” (Ezek. 37:11).

Death Cafés and the Resurrection of the Body

Among many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world was an increasing sense of mortality. This was very evident in the circles of...

Thinking About Death in Easter

By Victor Lee Austin Eastertide is a good time to think clearly about death, for the simple reason that in Christ’s resurrection everything about death...

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we...

Jesus, Baptism, and the Reversal of Death in Mark 4:1–5:43

By Paul D. Wheatley Life lived on this side of eternity is beset with an awareness of its finitude. We live with a quiet sense...

A Peaceful Night and a Perfect End

By Eugene R. Schlesinger When I first discovered the Book of Common Prayer as a young evangelical Christian, I quickly determined that Compline was among...

Painting Exclusively in Green

The biblical doctrines of imago Dei and the physical resurrection of the dead merit consideration, but they receive none.

Love, Prayer, and Her Majesty the Queen

By Jonathan Turtle Like so many people I was deeply saddened by the recent death of the Queen but it didn’t quite hit me until...

Quid Ad Aeternum: The Reading of the Necrology in the House of Deputies

By Leander Harding I attended the recent General Convention in Baltimore as a deputy from the Diocese of Albany. This is the second time I have...

The Church and the Cycle of Life

By Scott A. Ruthven As an Air Force Reserve Chaplain, I was given the opportunity to serve in a deployed setting as a Wing Chaplain....

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