The Rev’d Mr Ben Meyer on one of those odd passages in the Gospels:
Matthew: “The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.”
— Ben Meyer (@PastorBenMeyer) April 4, 2023
Us: “Tell us more.”
Matthew: “No.”
The Rev’d Mr Chris Corbin on some stuff that goes around the internet this time of year:
Great I forgot we get both the too enlightened for their own good resurrection is just a metaphor discourses at the same time we get the well akshoowallee easter is pagan discourses
— Théodramatiste (@theodramatist) April 6, 2023
There was a traveling troupe of Christian acteurs come to my methodist church in Key West that put on a modern rendering of the life of Christ in which the Klan lynched Jesus, so yes I've been aware of this possibility with no cognitive dissonance for since I was 4. https://t.co/aTBV0FXYDy
— Théodramatiste (@theodramatist) April 7, 2023
What Mr C would prefer:
We can easily imagine, even through very plausible science fiction, reanimating dead flesh through our power. But it's telling that the fiction around such stories is always horror. We can't imagine dead flesh living in such a way that death doesn't come through it.
— Théodramatiste (@theodramatist) April 8, 2023
The Rev’d Dr Dr Kara Slade cites the Book of The Boss:
Everything dies, baby, that's a fact
— Kara N. Slade (@KaraNSlade) April 8, 2023
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Rachel of “Underthenettle” reminisces about tumblr:
it's Good Friday, which means it's time to share my favourite tumblr post of all time pic.twitter.com/pieUkrdCp1
— Rachel (@underthenettle) April 7, 2023
In response to which James MacKinnon shares an old post by Sean Collins:
This is the post I always think of around this time pic.twitter.com/4hm3xR24cN
— James Mackinnon (@JAMackinn) April 7, 2023
“Old Hollow Tree” shares a picture of Michelangelo’s Pieta:
Michelangelo sculpted La Pietà when he was 24 years old from a single piece of marble and was the only artwork he signed.
— Old Hollow Tree (@OldHollowTree) April 7, 2023
It was unprecedented for its time, as it balanced classical beauty and naturalism, two Renaissance ideals that ran counter to each other. pic.twitter.com/lLqNn6gOhs
Eleanor Parker shares a thread of Maundy Thursday images:
A Maundy scene in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript: monks washing feet and a king giving alms to the poor, from an 11th-century Psalter (BL Harley 603, f. 66v) #MaundyThursday pic.twitter.com/vcp3W5z6yv
— Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) April 1, 2021
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