Easter Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/easter/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:19:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Easter Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/easter/ 32 32 170042892 ‘In sure and certain hope’ https://anglicanjournal.com/in-sure-and-certain-hope/ https://anglicanjournal.com/in-sure-and-certain-hope/#respond Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:43 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167453 The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the event that defines Christian faith. It is the unique event that affirms Jesus’s identity; and confirms, with power, all that Jesus taught about the love of God. It changes everything for the disciples, who must reframe all they expected through the lens that God is acting in life […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/in-sure-and-certain-hope/feed/ 0 167453 Resurrection now https://anglicanjournal.com/resurrection-now/ https://anglicanjournal.com/resurrection-now/#respond Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:36:48 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167607 Resurrection is a way of life.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/resurrection-now/feed/ 0 167607 April issue shares stories of resurrection, hope for the future https://anglicanjournal.com/april-issue-shares-stories-of-resurrection-hope-for-the-future/ https://anglicanjournal.com/april-issue-shares-stories-of-resurrection-hope-for-the-future/#respond Thu, 01 Apr 2021 04:00:49 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167525 April 2021 marks the second Easter celebrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, after a year of widespread lockdowns, social distancing and online church services. This month’s issue of the Anglican Journal features stories that speak to both the pain of the ongoing pandemic and the hope and joy of the resurrection. Life goes on, even during […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/april-issue-shares-stories-of-resurrection-hope-for-the-future/feed/ 0 167525 Longing for a post-apocalyptic Easter https://anglicanjournal.com/longing-for-a-post-apocalyptic-easter/ https://anglicanjournal.com/longing-for-a-post-apocalyptic-easter/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:46:29 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=164025 For a number of years in the early 2000s, Thomas Roach, then artist-in-residence at Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral, created an installation of veils that were draped over the altar area at the conclusion of the Good Friday liturgy. While the congregation and choir sang “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?”, dancers would reverently […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/longing-for-a-post-apocalyptic-easter/feed/ 2 164025 The resurrection is not all in your head https://anglicanjournal.com/the-resurrection-is-not-all-in-your-head/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-resurrection-is-not-all-in-your-head/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:12:04 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163891 Every Easter, without fail, media outlets trot out someone—usually a scholar or a minister—who offers the secular world a more “believable” understanding of the resurrection of Christ. Usually this begins with a denial that something happened to Jesus’s body, because we modern people know that bodies don’t rise from the dead. Therefore, the logic goes, […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-resurrection-is-not-all-in-your-head/feed/ 7 163891 Cultivating perseverance and patience on the road ahead https://anglicanjournal.com/cultivating-perseverance-and-patience-on-the-road-ahead/ https://anglicanjournal.com/cultivating-perseverance-and-patience-on-the-road-ahead/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:37:39 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163779 When we first heard the orders to self-isolate or go into quarantine due to COVID-19, there was a faint hope that, of course, this would be over by Easter. Within the first week it became evident that the isolation would take us past Easter, and parishes faced the challenges of preparing for Holy Week and […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/waiting-for-hope/feed/ 0 163261 Easter was unexpected in the beginning, and it still is https://anglicanjournal.com/easter-was-unexpected-in-the-beginning-and-it-still-is/ https://anglicanjournal.com/easter-was-unexpected-in-the-beginning-and-it-still-is/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2020 14:05:48 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163683 Few, if any, of Jesus’ original followers anticipated his resurrection from the dead.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/easter-was-unexpected-in-the-beginning-and-it-still-is/feed/ 2 163683 Resurrection comes to Fort McMurray https://anglicanjournal.com/resurrection-comes-to-fort-mcmurray/ https://anglicanjournal.com/resurrection-comes-to-fort-mcmurray/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:48:20 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163416 For almost four years, Fort McMurray has been recovering from the fire which, at the height of evacuation, forced more than 80,000 people to flee their homes. In the aftermath of the disaster, local churches played a vital role in helping the community rebuild.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/resurrection-comes-to-fort-mcmurray/feed/ 0 163416 ‘God’s total identification with the incarcerated’ https://anglicanjournal.com/gods-total-identification-with-the-incarcerated/ https://anglicanjournal.com/gods-total-identification-with-the-incarcerated/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:51:08 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163692 Prison chaplain Leigh Kern on the large-scale human suffering unfolding for those confined during COVID-19—and what you can do about it From March 24 to April 2, detainees at the Laval Migrant Detention Centre took part in a hunger strike demanding their release, citing the threat posed to incarcerated groups by the COVID-19 pandemic. As […]

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