This year Easter is a different holiday for me. I have always looked forward to the Easter egg hunts, the chocolate bunnies and family gatherings that included more chocolate. But one difference this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Area clergy will deliver messages of the power of the Resurrection, hope, love, truth and investing in one ...

Last year, drawing on the wisdom of the late Jesuit theologian Fr. Karl Rahner, I argued for "an ecological approach to Holy Week." This year, I want to return again to that theme, inspired by the ...

The celebration of the Lord’s resurrection is different depending on where you live. Easter celebrations and liturgies in Esquipulas, Guatemala, for example, fully consume the entire town during Holy ...

Christians today celebrate their holiest day, Easter Sunday, which commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Easter has long been a mix of the secular and the sacred, of candy, flowers and ...

Easter is the celebration of the finished work of the messiah Jesus Christ, the ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind who sacrificed his life to provide forgiveness of sin—enabling all who believe ...

As we bask in the glory of the Easter season, celebrating the Resurrection, it is a good time to consider how themes of resurrection have been a recurrent feature of literature throughout the ages. A ...

Parents looking for children’s books that touch on the deeper meaning of these celebratory holidays will find many choices ...

American Black Journal’s “Black Church in Detroit” series looks at Easter in the Black church. American Black Journal’s "Black Church in Detroit" series explores the messages of Easter and what the ...

This Easter many are thankfully experiencing another kind of resurrection: rising to a new life in this life, a life free from the threat of death by a deadly virus. We now joyfully watch it recede in ...

When he opened the bedroom door and looked at me, I knew he didn’t have good news. “I received the email,” he sighed. “They chose an internal candidate.” This time, the disappointment was a bit deeper ...

A church member holds a program for the sunrise Easter service presented by the South Sound United Methodist Cooperative on April 17, 2022. Steve Bloom sbloom@theolympian.com Spring has sprung, the ...