Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Thursday, April 9, 2020

12,000 US Catholics Sign Petition to Bishops to Permit Public Masses for Easter: "The Reckoning Is Upon Us"

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Kansas Gov Laura Kelly puts in place a stay-at-home order and a ban on large gatherings, like other (sane) governors. Republicans in K...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

"Christ Has No Body on Earth Now But Ours": An Easter Meditation on Hands and Feet by Jessica Pegis

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In her recent essay at the Women in Theology site entitled "Hands and Feet," Jessica Pegis notes that one of her favorite ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

POTUS Headed to Church on Easter Day: "NEED WALL!" — Deep Shame of White American Christianity As Hatred of Immigrants Normalized

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‘NEED WALL!’: Trump Heads to Easter Service After Threatening Mexico, Attacking Democrats https://t.co/t1BkpKInqB pic.twitter.com/zO9Oeo...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Jesus' Crucifixion and Resurrection, and His Table Open to All: Why Politics Are Unavoidable on Good Friday and Easter

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Because of the very powerful slaveholder religion  (and here ) crafted by Southern Christian apologists for slavery, which pretends t...

This Is Easter for Me: Joan Baez Singing "The President Sang Amazing Grace"

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This is Easter for me — Joan Baez singing "The President Sang Amazing Grace," with Jeff Scheer's beautiful animated video a...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Easter Tweets For You: Conversations Between Trump's "Pro-Life" Supporters and Their Critics — "Aren't You the Same Guy Who Just Yesterday Was Clamoring to Kill Prisoners?"

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Says the "pro-life" politician who spent her Easter weekend fighting to kill prisoners. https://t.co/iHiCxus5qJ — Sister Helen ...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter and the Longing to See Pharoah's Army Drowned: A Project in Which Atheists, Agnostics, and People of Faith Should Be Able to Collaborate

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In this Easter Sunday's New York Times , philosopher William Irwin describes a strategy for people who question the notion of God ...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

As Easter Nears, I'm Pondering Kaya Oakes's Question, "Is the Catholic Church in America Getting Worse for LGBTQ People and Women?" (My Answer: Yes)

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An open thread for Holy Week: is the Catholic church in America getting worse for LGBTQ people and women? https://t.co/q0KR9LKpfU — kaya ...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

An Easter Gift to Me, and Now to You: A Theological Conversation Between Ivone Gebara and Me, "Sharing Our Life as Theology"

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Giles Fraser: "A Church Is at Its Best When It Fails, When It Gives Up on All the Ecclesiastical Glitter, When the Weeds Start to Break Through the Floor"

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Giles Fraser in The Guardian  on how Christianity is, in its most central affirmations, all about the failure of a man condemned to a ...

Easter Weekend Poem: All Creatures Dream Alive

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

"Every Life Is Different Because You Passed This Way and Touched History": Easter Meditation Points

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Good Friday sets the stage for Easter: to complete the bouquet of meditative pieces I gathered for you on Good Friday, here's an Ea...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

"The Sight of Fossilized Light in a Growing Universe": Rachel Maddow's Resurrectional Reflection on the Struggle for LGBT Human Rights

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Lent, Easter, Jesus and the Victims of History: A Meditation

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Lent ends today, and it's my 63rd birthday, and I find myself in much the same place in which I was as my 60th birthday approache...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

A Life Review, First Week of Easter

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Some spiritual traditions (in the Catholic church, the Ignatian one; in Protestantism, Puritanism) emphasize a practice of ongoing re...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Charles Blow on Trayvon Martin and the "Restoration of Faith": An Easter Meditation

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Michelangelo, "Risen Christ" (1532) Charles Blow writes that the national conversation about Trayvon Martin and George Z...
Monday, April 9, 2012

More Marilynne Robinson: Synchronicity, Synergy, and Nature as Shining Garment of Divinity

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Marilynne Robinson finds science's inability to imagine the world analogically, or to speak of what it observes in analogical ter...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

As Institutional Church Cracks Open and Tumbles Down, New Life Rises in the Cracks

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And as formal structures of church life appear to be dying in many places around the world, while spiritual hunger and spiritual thir...

Easter Greetings: Hope, Resurrection, and Kindness

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And so this, quite simply, was Steve's and my Holy Saturday celebration: before starting on our trip back home after our Good Fri...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Dying, Rising: Easter Weekend

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Dear Gentle Readers, I will be slow to post here through Easter, since Steve and I have taken a small and much-needed break/retreat these ...