Esau McCaulley, On Hope, Hate and the Most Radical Claim of the Easter SeasonApril 8, 2023 Easter has never been my favorite church service. Shouting “Alleluia, Christ is risen!” requires an emotional crescendo my melancholy temperament can’t easily manage.I’m much more comfortable on Maundy Thursday, the beginning of the Triduum, the holiest three days in […]
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N. T. Wright on Easter by The Rabbit Room on March 31, 2013 [The following is an excerpt from N. T. Wright’s Surprised By Hope.] “…Many churches now hold Easter vigils, as the Orthodox church has always done, but in many cases they are…too tame by half. Easter is about the wild delight of […]
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Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. —Luke 2:11 In the summer of 1861, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife, Frances, died tragically in a fire. That first Christmas without her, he wrote in his diary, “How inexpressibly sad are the holidays.” The next year […]
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The other two days have earned names on the church calendar: Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Yet in a real sense we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What the disciples experienced in small scale—three days in grief over one man who had died on a cross—we now live through on cosmic scale. […]