I have a few pieces of poetry that I love to take out and muse over each Easter season. Today, here is one many don’t know about, from someone many will find surprising: John Updike.
Discovery Weekend is a curriculum that was formed for middle school students, is led by high school students, and is supported by adults. It is a wonderful mosaic of the body of Christ through a retreat experience at home.
My mind began to wander, and by some divine hand, it began to journey to the cross. I began to see her life and mine in the light of the suffering—the whip-marks that tore his flesh—the stripes that He says will heal me. I saw my tormented heart reflected in his agony. “Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto his sorrow.”
For a market to be a true market, there must be a notion of voluntary exchange. While free, creative, and voluntary actions are not the only requirements for markets to be effective, they are at the epicenter of the market mechanism. Yet the same liberty that allows me to freely enter into economic arrangements also allows me to act in non-market ways. This includes the practice of unconditional giving.
Why do Christians refer to the day of Christ’s death as “good?” In today’s article, Jackson Lashier continues his series on the Church Fathers as he explores Melito of Sardis’ work. God saves through death, and somehow (and quite paradoxically) this is good news for the world.
