NOTE: If you are a subscriber and receive this post via email, it is best viewed online. Click here to enjoy! I LOVE church bells. I grew up with them. I loved that you could tell the time without having to look at a watch. According to Christianity.com bells have been rung throughout church history…
To paraphrase a community in despair: “Show yourself, Jesus. In the middle of drought and famine and disease, for God’s sake, show up!” This urgent lament belongs to the little village of Kingala, whose story is told by Barbara Kingsolver in her novel — The Poisonwood Bible. The book is a fictitious tale of a misguided mission…
Happy Easter everyone! In the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene was the first to arrive at the tomb nearly 2000 years ago. Because some of us have heard this story so many times there’s always a danger that the details become like wallpaper in someone’s home you’ve walked into a million times and you now…
That stone, hewn for mortal sadnessFrom the dust to dust returnedWaiting to entomb all gladnessLife eternally inurned. That stone, lit by day’s last sunlightWelcomed agony’s remainsTears that dimmed His Mother’s eyesightMingled with its life-blood stains. That stone held in death’s great conquestFor three days God’s vanquished Love.Hope with blood drained from his pierced chestFor salvation…
An Invitation to a Holy Lent Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the…
Last year I began painting Easter Eggs as a way to create something for my daughter to use one day for her own Easter celebrations. This has been one of the most fun and fulfilling projects that I have worked on this year and I wanted to share a little bit about the process in…
Have any of you ever raised chickens? Or have you visited a farm or perhaps a zoo where you might have seen a mother hen sitting on a nest of eggs? Have you ever thought about what it must be like to be a baby chick inside one of those eggs? Let’s talk about that. …
The story begins under humble circumstances but builds momentum over time: a woman and a man talking in a cemetery under the cover of darkness on an early Sunday morning. The woman is Mary Magdalene. In movies, she is usually portrayed as having the looks of Angelina Jolie and the morals of Mother Theresa – an…
Emmanuel Voices 