Tag: Easter

  • Easter during a Pandemic

    Easter during a Pandemic

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    Ruth Everhart
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    (I wrote this for Easter 2020, but it’s still applicable in Easter 2021. Published in The Christian Century.) Yesterday was Good Friday. Instead of working on a sermon or reading scripture to follow Jesus along the Via Dolorosa, I spent hours on the phone with my elderly mother, trying to help her master Zoom technology.…

  • Easter Sunrise Service at the Lincoln Memorial

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    Ruth Everhart

    We sat on folding chairs before dawn, in the still-dark. Abe Lincoln towered behind us. I felt the cold wind on my cheeks while I kept my arm around my grown-up daughter, to help keep her warm. In the distance, the early light silhouetted the obelisk of the Washington Monument with pink. We listened to…