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A day to remember

by James Stewart

Holy Week exposes a subtle cultural difference with significant implications.

Christ didn't come to give us the willies

by Margaret Jenista

A reflection on the implications of downplaying the suffering memories of Good Friday.

From the ashes

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

At opposite ends of the Lenten journey are two paradoxical reminders.

The testimony of the stones

by Brian Walsh

A Palm Sunday meditation on the unspoken groanings of creation at the Lamb being led to the slaughter.

Discovering the Psalms during Holy Week

by Nathan Bierma

Seven reflections on psalms that bear the echoes of biblical narrative themes.

Mean old world

by Denise Frame Harlan

The Good News of holy week can be an awfully scary story.

Acting as if

by Katie Houston

On a mother's struggle to care for herself and her children in the wake of a Lenten suicide.

Neon Bible reveals more than indie emotionalism

by Grant Elgersma

A review of Arcade Fire's newest release.

Prison Break

by G.Carol Bomer

Reason #47,228 why we wear pastels on Easter

by Neil E. Das

Reqiuem for a Broken God

by Brett Alan Dewing

All Men are as the Grass

by Pegi Ballenger

Resurrection

by Neil E. Das

More of myself

by Amy Carpenter Leugs

Reflection on experiences that flow between the community and the self.

Second baptism

by Name withheld

A solitary journey into the woods leads to transformation.

What I learned during Lent

by David Howard Malone

Going without yields a lesson about the true substance of control.

Cinema Paradiso

Sojourner's Magazine

Reflections on the April scripture texts from the Revised Common Lectionary (Cycle C) by Malinda Berry.

The many times my mother died

Killing the Buddha

J. Sharlet writes about believing in resurrection.