Easter

“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!” Hallelujah.

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Holy Saturday

Easter Eve: Sepulchre -Rowan Williams Constantine knew, of course, just what he wanted: smooth verticals and marble, crushed glass rolled underfoot, room for archangels with their orbs and wounds, space for cool power to stroll, relaxed and heavy-footed Out to the little scented hedges, under a cross that shimmers, silver and rubies, soft shadows lapping [...]

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Good Friday

Speculations on the Subject of Barabbas -Zbigniew Herbert What Became of Barabbas? I ask but no one knows Let off his chain he went into the brightly lit street he could turn to the right go straight turn to the left spin around in a circle crow cheerfully as a rooster He the Emperor of [...]

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Maundy Thursday

Of the glorious Body telling, O my tongue its mysteries sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the world’s eternal King, In a noble womb once dwelling, Shed for the world’s ransoming. From Pange lingua, a hymn of Thomas Aquinas

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Proud to be a Texan.

Last night Stanley Hauerwas was publically interviewed by an Anglican Priest/News Anchorman (weird combination, I know) in the divinity school. I had heard Dr Hauerwas speak in chapel a few weeks ago, which was a great experience as expected. The sermon was on a passage from 1 Corinthians and was fairly straightforward and not particularly [...]

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Ten Thousand Charms

     One thing we have been very conscious of since attending All Saints AMIA church is the fact that it is made up of mostly white, and mostly middle class people. Looking back, that has been the case for most of my church going over the years, and seems to be the case for the majority of churches in [...]

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