Christian faculty and staff gathering on Zoom on 4/15 - Hear from Dr. Christine Pohl

It's Friday, but Sunday's coming! I came across an essay about TS Eliot's poem, East Coker IV, that has a special meditation about Good Friday.

  • "…these five stanzas clothe Good Friday’s paradoxical revelations of the nature of salvation, sanctification, and sacrament in the garb of the hospital."
  • "Christ our Lord is “the wounded surgeon” with “the bleeding hands,” healing us who are sick in the knowing and mercy bought of His own sacrifice."
  • "The Church that ministers His salvation is staffed by “dying nurses,” able to attend the suffering because they share in their condition.
  • The poem is at the end of the essay. 

I hope you and yours have a wonderful Easter.

Dr. Christine Pohl will join us and share her wisdom about Christian hospitality. She is Associate Provost and Professor of Church and Society/Christian Ethics, Asbury Theological Seminary and has researched and written on Christian hospitality. She knows the many Christian communities engaged in that practice. She wrote Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition and has shared with us her article, Hospitality: A practice and a way of life. She has written about how churches make hospitality real and has also given interviews about Christian hospitality. 

On April 15:

  • 1552. King Edward VI of England allowed publication of a new version of The Book of Common Prayer.
  • 1958. Dayuma was baptized at Wheaton College. The example of her conversion facilitated conversion of her tribe, the Aucas.

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