Wanda M. Lundy: From Good Friday to Easter Sunday
The last year has been a reminder that death is part of the process that moves us toward new life, writes an assistant professor, mentoring program leader and pastor.
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Walking through closed doors this Easter -- the resurrection of the body
A year of suffering reminds us of Christ’s embodiment and of our own, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
Allison Backous Troy: Cultivating hope in love despite fear
As Eastern Orthodox Easter approaches, a writer reflects on how we may find ways to adorn and anoint and bless the new world in which we live, dark as it is.
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By Allison Backous Troy
Writer and educator
Aleta Payne: Easter at the altar of my kitchen table
Worshipping online Easter Sunday was an extraordinary experience filled with joy and grief, writes the associate editor of Faith & Leadership.
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By Aleta Payne
Senior associate editor, Faith & Leadership
Nathan Kirkpatrick: Our rituals will change this year
A holy season marked by pandemic can still bear witness to hope, peace and faith.
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By Nathan Kirkpatrick
Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC
Paul A. Baxley: Easter is not canceled if we do not gather
Because Christ is alive and has gone ahead of us, the ministry of the church can be carried out in homes and through relationships, in the smallest of settings. That is how it was in the beginning -- and how it needs to be in this moment, writes the executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
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By Paul A. Baxley
Executive coordinator, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Mary Magdalene's perspective: Reflecting resurrection
The spiritual practice of “divine seeing” invites us to look deeply and to question. How might you view the world differently from a place of greater focus and openness to new perspectives?
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By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
Melissa Musick Nussbaum: Make room for the real work of nativity and resurrection
Getting ready to host an immigrant family, a writer and speaker reflects on the book of Acts and the post-holiday question of “now what?”
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By Melissa Musick Nussbaum
Writer
Jean Neely: Confusion and doubt are part of the spiritual journey
Our faith is sometimes better represented by the despair of Holy Saturday than the confidence of Easter Sunday, says a writer and Christ seeker.
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By Jean Neely
Scholar and writer
Nathan Kirkpatrick: Jesus will meet us anywhere
From the very beginning, Easter has been a story of the risen Jesus made known in the midst of uncertainties, anxieties and fears.
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By Nathan Kirkpatrick
Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC
Nathan Kirkpatrick: Why are we waiting?
In this sermon from an Easter Vigil, the author says the disciples gathered after the horrific events of Good Friday because they needed each other. And they needed to know what the God who had breathed life from dust might do next.
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By Nathan Kirkpatrick
Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC
