Easter
After a Holy Week disrupted by death, an honest Easter
By Laura Everett — April 9, 2020
(RNS) — We are heading into an Easter that stares straight into the eyes of death and empire and still declares love stronger than the grave.
In a virtual Easter season, matter still matters for Catholics
By Timothy OMalley — April 9, 2020
(RNS) — Most Catholics understand why we’ll have to stream our Easter celebrations this year, but digital connection is not the coin of the realm in our worship.
This year Easter will feel more like Passover
By Stephen B. Chapman — April 8, 2020
(RNS) — Rather than putting on their new Easter clothes and gathering at church, Christian families may find it meaningful to read from Exodus together.
How the war on Christmas became the war on Easter
By Shane Claiborne — April 4, 2020
(RNS) — As states issue stay-at-home orders and bar gatherings, some evangelical Christians — those who believe they are a persecuted minority — have become convinced that religious freedom is under attack.
In this Episcopal church, the co-leader of the Lenten study is a rabbi
By Yonat Shimron — March 19, 2020
(RNS) — Rabbi Raachel Jurovics is now rabbi-in-residence at the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina — one of a handful of such posts in Episcopal dioceses.
What if Easter, Passover and Ramadan get canceled?
By Religion News Service — March 17, 2020
(RNS) — The coronavirus pandemic may disrupt major religious holidays such as Easter, Passover and Ramadan.
Faithful may be banned from Easter celebrations with Pope, says Vatican
By Claire Giangravé — March 15, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As of Saturday night, Catholic faithful are no longer able to purchase tickets to attend the Holy Week celebrations in St. Peter’s as concerns about the coronavirus pandemic in Italy risk affecting Easter.
Who are Sri Lanka’s Christians?
By Mathew Schmalz — April 22, 2019
(The Conversation) — Sri Lanka’s 21 million Christians, the majority of them Roman Catholics, have a long history that reflects the dynamics of colonialism as well as present-day ethnic and religious tensions.
To Sri Lankan Christians, and all Christian friends: ‘May Christ rise for you’
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 21, 2019
(RNS) — When Easter Sunday becomes Good Friday, something is terribly wrong.
Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday
By Brent Landau — April 21, 2019
(The Conversation) — Among the important disputes settled at the A.D. 325 Council of Nicaea, the church council also resolved that Easter should be fixed on a Sunday, not on the traditional day of the Jewish Passover.
Wild Church founder Victoria Loorz finds resurrection on Easter and Earth Day
By Yonat Shimron — April 19, 2019
(RNS) — The founder of The Wild Church Network, a loose circle of Christian congregations that meet outdoors, seeks a restored relationship with God through nature.
In new film, Mary Magdalene is rechristened a revolutionary, healer and baptizer
By Cathleen Falsani — April 19, 2019
(RNS) — In the new film 'Mary Magdalene,' the title character is many things but not the one role in which she has been historically (mis)cast: the so-called 'fallen woman.'
Easter service portrays Jesus’ resurrection at Md. cemetery’s replica tomb
By Adelle M. Banks — April 19, 2019
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (RNS) — Unlike the cast of cemetery workers, the crowd has no instructions to remain silent as a grave digger portraying Jesus appears in the dawn’s first light.
#MeToo, ‘Mary Magdalene’ focus on women’s stories in Bible as Easter nears
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 18, 2019
(RNS) — It seems like the women of Scripture are having a moment leading up to Easter (April 21), celebrated by many Christians as the day they believe Jesus rose from the dead.
How to be a mensch at your seder (or Easter dinner)
By Joshua Hammerman — April 16, 2019
(RNS) — As we gather for the holidays, we all need someone who sees the spark of divinity in everyone at the table — even those whose views we can't stand.
