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Liturgical Seasons, Holy Week, Easter, Innovation

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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Theological Reflection, Liturgical Seasons, Holy Week, Easter

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.

Visitors at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which, according to tradition, is the site of Jesus' empty tomb. Bigstock / Kirill4mula

Liturgical Seasons, Holy Week, Easter

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.

The UNC Tar Heels celebrate their NCAA national championship victory after defeating Gonzaga 71-65 on April 3, 2017. Daily Tar Heel photograph by Nathan Klima

Liturgical Seasons, Holy Week, Easter

Victoria Atkinson White: Basketball, redemption and resurrection

The UNC Tar Heels wanted to redeem their devastating 2016 NCAA men’s basketball championship loss. In winning this year, they accomplished their goal, but they did not change history, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

The traditional elements of a Turkish bath include a bath bowl, soap and peshtamal. Bigstock / Uwphotographer

Liturgical Seasons, Holy Week

Rhonda Mawhood Lee: A Turkish bath and the vulnerability of footwashing

Footwashing makes us feel vulnerable, as vulnerable as an Episcopal priest felt on a visit to a ‘hamam’ in Istanbul. But maybe that’s the point, she writes -- vulnerability is the paradoxical source of Christians’ strength.

"Jesus Washes an Apostle's Feet" by Laurie Olson Lisonbee, 2006. Used with permission.

Christian Leadership, Holy Week, Liturgical Seasons

Alaina Kleinbeck: Foot washing is about love, not just servanthood

Jesus’ intimate moment with his disciples calls us to leadership that manifests and concretizes love, writes the director of Duke Youth Academy.

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Health & Well-being, Emotional health, Liturgical Seasons, Holy Week

Monica A. Coleman: Jesus is here, even for those silenced by depression

In Holy Week, a favorite gospel song reminds the author that God loves even those who cannot cry out in praise, those whom depression has left as silent as stones.