An Arkansas County Circuit Court judge, Wendell Griffen, issued a restraining order against the state on Friday, temporarily staying the executions of eight men, which had been scheduled to begin on Monday night.
I, perhaps, identify best with Schrödinger’s cat, simultaneously both arrived and not, until the box is opened. Until the stone is rolled away. Until the gates of hell are burst. How do you enter into the joy of the resurrection?
Happy Easter! In this episode Luci and Jordan get into the story of Samuel
It grieves me that we put so much effort into the suffering, shame and darkness of Holy week and then just recover, exhausted with Netflix and candy in Easter Week, too exhausted even to unwrap a Cadbury Egg. Easter Monday? What of Monday? What of Tuesday? What of Wednesday of this Easter Week?
On the third morning
The women came first,
Somehow knowing in their wisdom
As women often do!
Anxious with sorrow,
I increasingly feel that I live in a strange land. Political polarization has displaced the mutual respect and compromise essential for democracy to protect the rights of the minority and the majority… Where is the Church, and most particularly The Episcopal Church (TEC), to be found in this strange land?
But, something funny happened at the tomb…
Australia has it’s own situation with boat people. Australia’s Royal Navy intercepts boats full off would-be immigrants and refugees to Australia off that nation’s coasts and detains them in refugee centers. However, Australia has farmed these centers to other island nations in the vicinity of Australia. There are detention centers on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru.
The folks over at the Pew Research Center have released five factoids about how folks in the US, who adhere to the three Abrahamic faiths, view scripture.
Christchurch Cathedral was severely damaged by major earthquakes that hit Christchurch from September 2010 to summer 2012. Other than to secure the structure from further damage and to ensure no one is injured, nothing has been done to replace or repair the building.