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Good Friday

The Generosity, Courage, and Foolishness of the Cross

It is tempting to offer another gospel, an easier one one without the cross. But there God reconciles the world to himself, not counting our trespasses against us.

Good Friday

Good Friday is the premier occasion in the church year for solemn intercession. Though the liturgical observance of the day has varied in different...

Good Friday Concert is a Twist on a Century-Old Tradition

Raising funds for the Holy Land at a troubling time

Love and Fear: For Good Friday

By Neil Dhingra Now imagine a film projected not on a screen but on a rubbish dump. The story of Jesus — which in its...

Good Friday Is Not a Funeral for Jesus

By Bryan Owen In many parts of the Episcopal Church there’s a tradition of highlighting the mournful character of Good Friday and the agonies of...

Stabat Mater Dolorosa: The Blessed Virgin at the Foot of the Cross

By Neil Dhingra   Behold your son … Behold your mother. — John 19:25 We do not know where St. Mary has been, at least not since the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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