The symbol of Easter is the empty tomb. You can’t depict or domesticate emptiness. You can’t make it into pageants and string it with lights. It doesn’t move people to give presents to each other or sing old songs. It ebbs and flows all around us, the Eastertide. Even the great choruses of Handel’s Messiah sound a little like a handful of crickets chirping under the moon.
“Welcoming the stranger is not optional for Christians. Nor is it conditional.” said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary the Rev Samuel Kobia in Beirut, Lebanon last week.
Food banks supported by churches and others are seeing an increase in numbers of clients as the cost of food and fuel rises. Rationing has
President of the House of Deputies, Bonnie Anderson has sent a letter to all the Deputies and first Alternates to General Convention 2009. She is
The Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba of Capetown, South Africa has released a statement on Zimbabwe pleading for help from the world for the people of
The Rev. Tim Schenck, who blogs at Clergy Family Confidential, ran in the Boston Marathon yesterday to raise money to fight global hunger. He finished in 4:20:12. You can support Tim’s cause by visiting the Tufts’ Marathon Challenge Web site.
Every Christian in every denomination around the world are being asked to pray for Zimbabwe on Sunday, April 27, 2008. We are asked to pray
One Good Friday in the 1980s or early 1990s, Krister preached the entire Seven Last Words of Jesus service at Harvard’s Memorial Church. After the service, one of us asked him whether he might be willing to part with a copy of his text. “I had no notes,” he said simply. So we carry his wisdom in our memories and into our own times in pulpit and classroom.
O Christian soul, O soul rid of death’s burden and restored to life, O soul redeemed and liberated by the Blood of God from wretched servitude, exert thy faculties, remember how thou hast been raised, consider thy redemption and thy setting free! Ask of thyself anew what is the power that saved thee, and where it is found;
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has written to Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables, Primate of the Southern Cone, asking him to cancel a planned, unauthorized visit to Canada.