Although the reader may be more familiar with Christmas in Narnia, in relation to Christian festivals in C. S. Lewis’s fantasy, Easter may resonate more when exploring Christian themes. The same is also true of…
To see things as they are is the great thing. We frequently flatter ourselves that we see through the stories we tell, reducing them to a sort of puerile or adolescent escapism, but there is…
Fire at first ignites from within, with the voice of St. Catherine of Siena: “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” The warmth develops in my…
To many people, Easter means bunnies, baby chicks in yellow down and candy; ham too, for those who are more “traditionally” minded. Christians, naturally, profess that Easter is more than this, just as Christmas is…
The story of Easter is a profound map of the spiritual journey. Jesus plainly calls us to pick up our cross and follow him to death. The death which Jesus modelled is the death of…
He sat on the high wall that surrounded the high priest’s courtyard, a stately silhouette that no one ever really noticed. If they had looked up and it wasn’t the dark of night, the passersby…
One of the best ways to visit the reality of biblical truth is through biblical fiction. To take the reality of the historicity of the bible and add wonderous speculation about how events turned out…
Life, death, rebirth. These themes are revisited every year when the flowers bloom again, filling the world with color, like a rainbow had walked through the melting snow. The image of a stone rolled away…
Abstract This article aims to explain the importance of Easter to medieval Christians and points out some of the ways that they learned about their faith and celebrated the death and resurrection of their saviour.…
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