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Good Friday: The axis of the cosmos

Holy Week for Newbies Have you ever wondered why an execution is known as, “Good” Friday? The early church believed Jesus was crucified on March 25th. Further, they believed that, since re-creation...

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Good Friday: The axis of the cosmos

Holy Week for Newbies Have you ever wondered why an execution is known as, “Good” Friday? The early church believed Jesus was crucified on March 25th. Further, they believed that, since re-creation...

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The In Between Day

Holy Saturday Today is the quiet day. In the church historic, the art for today portrays the Harrowing of Hell, Jesus making proclamation to the “spirits in prison” (1 Peter 3:18-22), trampling the...

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Easter: The Story that Shapes all Stories

  Holy Week for Newbies A few years back an international student from China named Peter spent his senior year of high school living with us. Growing up in an atheist country, Peter had no spiritual...

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Killing it: How overwork leads to underperformance

Have you ever been really tired? As in, barely drag yourself out of bed, wonder how you’ll make it through the day, dog-tired? Have you ever been discouraged, depressed, or anxious? Are you any of...

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What are you waiting for?

No one likes to wait. Remember staring at presents under the Christmas tree? Or arriving famished at your favorite restaurant and the maître d’ tells you 90 minutes? Or standing in line forever at...

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Believing Crazy Stuff

Acts 1:1-11, Eph 1:15-23, Luke 24:44-53 (with a shoutout to Matthew 28:16-17) St. Augustine of Hippo said, “If you believe what you like in the gospel and reject what you don’t like, it’s not the...

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The True Cross

  You probably missed it. It doesn’t show up in most calendars, and it isn’t mentioned newsfeeds – Holy Cross Day was September 14. Here’s the story: Constantine converted to Christianity and sent the...

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The Great Tradition

New folk are often struck by how much Anglicans talk about “the tradition.” People sometimes assume we mean, “That’s just how we’ve always done it.” But that is not what we are talking about at all....

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Lent: Tickets to Spring Training

In the early church people preparing for baptism, called catechumens, would spend 40 days fasting, praying, and meeting daily to learn the Christian faith. Eventually, as a show of solidarity, the rest...

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