Tag: easter
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The ‘Good’ in Good Friday
May 11, 2025Revelation 7:9-17 As a people and a culture, we’re often more at ease with Good Friday than Easter Sunday — so much so that we’ve forgotten what’s good about it in the first place: the resurrection. An event Western Christianity has spent so much energy trying to prove that it’s forgotten its true power —…
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Offensive Love
March 30, 2025Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 A story we’ve probably heard too many times to count: the story of the Prodigal Son. And yet, have you ever noticed how the story doesn’t end? How we’re left on the edge of our seats wondering what the older brother will do? Ultimately the story of the Prodigal Son…
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This Barren Tomb
We have journeyed long and hard, into the recesses of our souls, in the darkness of the night, in the unknown and frightful, to find ourselves at an empty tomb, with joy and praise, with love and laughter, and yet with fear. Where are you in this hollow? What is this call to follow you…
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A Good Friday Poem
Forget the formulathe frequency at which we fumble to find a way to figure out our freedom. I know it’s hard to hear for we have been hoodwinked and harpooned into fearand guiltand shamefinding ourselves to blamefor far too long. Maybe it wasbecausethe cross looked like an invitationfor a calculationa plus signwe thought there was…
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In Tomb
I have found myself, post-Easter, scrambling, waiting, watching and mourning. Do we, as a world, ever have the luxury of entering into resurrection? It often feels more like we are at the foot of the cross than spreading news of miracles and of joy. Last week I chatted with my spiritual director and she highlighted…
by Rev Alisha 