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Eben Alexander, the neurosurgeon who four years ago survived a near-death experience, ponders the meaning of resurrection and its implications for our view of death.
If we miss the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter, we miss a crucial part of the Holy Week story.
At Huffpost Religion, Rice University Professor of Biblical Studies April D. DeConick encourages readers of the Bible to take seriously the place of women in biblical tradition.
Today is the day of despair. Rumours of light fade into doubt.
http://contemplativejournal.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=41&Itemid=579
Listen to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s two and a half minute BBC reflection on Good Friday that was broadcast today:
In his Good Friday meditation, Peter M. Wallace reflects upon Jesus’ cry from the cross, “I am thirsty”.
It is challenging to know how to communicate to children something of the nature of Good Friday that might touch their lives in a positive way.
He really is breaking the mold.
People want power. When we cannot have power ourselves, we at least want to be connected to people who have power.
In many places the Bible encourages the practice of silence and stillness as paths to opening to an awareness of God and as the natural response to that awareness.
In A Spacious Place 