The Season of Easter
Easter Articles
Three Teaching Points for Easter
Whether you are planning an adult Easter series, newsletter for families, or Easter prayer stations for youth, here are three teaching points to consider.
Blessing of the Easter Eggs
Celebrate the message of Christ’s resurrection with family, friends, and neighbors during your Easter Egg hunt.
10 Easter Encouragements for Ministry Leaders
Easter Monday… you made it! The resurrection unfolds into a season of new life. What does it hold for you? Encouraging words from the Center for the Ministry of Teaching.
Easter Sunrise Breakfast at Home
An Easter sunrise breakfast is one way families can transmit Christian belief in ways that are authentic to their household.
Why Eggs on Easter? A Christian Answer
Enjoy your chocolate Easter eggs! Eggs are a perfect Easter symbol. Eggs are symbols of new life, just as Christians find new life in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at Easter.
In the Bustle of Easter… Don’t Forget to Teach Easter!
When to teach Easter is a fundamental question for churches who see high attendance numbers on Easter Sunday but do not offer formational time on the Feast Day.
Easter Craft: Resurrection Butterflies
A fun tradition is to make these during Holy Week. You can then hide the butterfly chrysalises, to be revealed on Easter Sunday.
Finding Jesus in Egg Hunts and Easter Baskets
Two posts to help families and churches add Christian depth and teaching to Egg Hunts and Easter Baskets.
Beyond the Egg Hunt: Celebrating Easter at Church
“However you choose to incorporate and channel the excitement of Easter morning, do it intentionally, with love and the full knowledge that death has been
9 Ways to Welcome Church Visitors on Easter
Does your church have many visitors and guests on Easter? Carolyn Chilton shares 9 ways to show Christian hospitality, including children.
Reflection: Easter is my New Lent…
This Easter season, my faith has been changed. And it’s a result of what I gave up for Lent, which would be exactly nothing. Is it a result of what I took on for Lent? Yes, but the answer may surprise you. What I took on for Lent was indulgence. Shocking. Scandalous. Unintentional. But it truly changed me. After all, isn’t that what Lent is supposed to do?
Easter Symbols – What do Bunnies, Eggs, and Bonnets have to do with Jesus?
Our Christian faith is rich in symbolism, both ancient and modern. Easter, after our period of study and repentance, offers us every opportunity to share the Love of God in Jesus Christ and to share our joy that He is risen indeed!
*Chocolate bunnies, meanwhile, don’t have much to teach us about Christianity. They are good to eat, and always the first to go from my Easter basket, starting with the ears!
Make a Resurrection Set: Hands-on Easter Learning
How to download, make, and use a resurrection set to teach children about Good Friday and Easter.
An Interview with Mary Magdalene
A reporter for the Jerusalem Journal, a distant cousin of Mary Magdalene, sat down with Mary Magdalene, privately, in a interview that lasted about an hour. This is the unofficial version of that interview, which up to this time, has never been published.
9 Children’s Easter Books To Tell The Story of Jesus
Sharing the Easter story with young people is a great joy. These books, with text and images, tell the death and resurrection of Jesus in appropriate ways.
Defending the Easter Egg Hunt!
Our annual Easter Egg Hunt is under attack. Not from parishioners or clergy who question the religiosity of the tradition, nor from the expense of filling plastic eggs with candy, stickers, and tiny toys for a quickly increasing number of children. No, we’re under attack by local wildlife, who after many years of oblivion have suddenly discovered that once a year St. Barnabas holds a smorgasbord served in odd plastic ovals.
Come Back, Easter Crowd!
Over the years, I have seen churches of all sizes compel the “Easter Crowd” to return the following weekend and eventually become part of the congregation. With some pre-planning and strategic intent, you can improve your odds at getting back the people who, otherwise, you might not see again for another year.
An Easter Story: The Empty Egg
As she pondered the situation, guilt washed over her. “Here I am complaining when my problems are nothing compared to that family, trying to meet what were probably many medical bills due to his various issues,” she thought. “Lord, please help me to be more patient with Jeremy.” From that day on, she tried hard to ignore Jeremy’s noises and his blank stares.
Digging Deeper: The Great Vigil of Easter
Only the Eucharist itself is older than the liturgy of the Great Vigil. This service reenacts the passage from death into life.
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