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Pentecost and the Passage of Time
Yesterday was the day of Pentecost in the church calendar, a celebration of the sending of the Spirit 50 days after the resurrection of Jesus. I marked the occasion yesterday with a song, but I want to say one or … Continue reading
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A Song to End the Season
Today is Pentecost Sunday, which marks the arrival of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts and brings an end to the not-so-ordinary part of the church calendar. Here’s a song that didn’t make the cut for U2’s All … Continue reading
On Ascension Day
In the Eastertide narrative, today marks Ascension Day, forty days after Jesus’ resurrection and ten days before Pentecost. Erik Varden reflects well on the day in Entering the Twofold Mystery when, using Luke’s account of the moment in the book … Continue reading
Beating Death at Its Own Game
Eastertide continues, of course, up until Pentecost, which is just under a month away. Here’s another great Easter song. Andrew Peterson did that rare but great thing (almost George Lucas-like) by releasing Resurrection Letters Volume One years before releasing Volume … Continue reading
Forty-Eight and Four Squares
Today is Birthday 48 for me. Not quite as cool a number as 47, which is prime , or as 49, which only has three factors, but it is what it is. I’m hopeful for a mostly normal day: early … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Crouch, Easter, Erik Varden, Four Squares, Steven Curtis Chapman
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“In the Valley of the Shadow”
A great song to remind us that Eastertide continues.
The Tension of Enchantment
This semester in class we’ve started each period with a reading from the New Testament letter of James and prayer. This week, as we’ve come to the end of the letter, we’ve read and briefly talked about what James says … Continue reading
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The Deity and the Details
A couple of weeks ago, back in my fifth Lenten reflection using Erik Varden’s The Shattering of Loneliness, I mentioned his use of the church father Irenaeus, particularly his “notion of God and man getting used to each other.” I … Continue reading
Eastertide
Yesterday, a week after Easter Sunday, church was mostly “back to normal.” Which is both understandable and unfortunate. At least with some version of Advent, and the desire to keep the tree up a little bit longer, Christmas gets to … Continue reading
The Resurrection Optic
Over the Lenten season I’ve posted some short reflections on Erik Varden’s The Shattering of Loneliness. I think it appropriate to link to his Easter reflection, which I found to be short and sweet. You can read the whole thing … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 