Tag: Good Friday

• Good Friday

  

  Today, the second day of the Triduum, Christians all over the world are remembering and ritually observing the event of Jesus’ passion. It’s “passion” in the sense of suffering, unto death, related to the Greek notion of pathos, rather than “passion” in the more contemporary sense of strong emotion or enthusiasm, as in “shopping is […]

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  March 30, 2018

  A Month of Sundays, Thinking Out Loud

  atonement, Christianity, Good Friday, passion, Passover, redemption, religion

• Good Friday

  When I was in our local nursing home/rehab facility recently, recuperating from a hip replacement and hoping to get all the feeling back into my left foot (still working on that), I had a hard enough time sleeping that I would leave the TV on in the room overnight … it helped, although I can’t […]

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  April 14, 2017

  Thinking Out Loud

  Christianity, communion, George Eliot, Good Friday, political theology, prosperity gospel, Quotations, religion, solidarity, suffering, theology