The Silence of Saturday 2021

An annual Christmas Day post is about the only tradition I've managed to maintain over the years on this here blog. I'm determined to make another tradition out of writing about Holy Saturday (the day between "Good Friday" and "Easter" on the Christian liturgical calendar). It is to me the most honest day of the …

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The Silence of Saturday

"It's Friday...but Sunday's comin'!" That's a popular refrain among Christians on these final days of Holy Week. But we might reasonably respond in our most skeptical tone, "Yeah, right!" Over on my favorite blog, Slacktivist, Fred Clark posted Holy Saturday. First seen in 2010, he's reposted it every year. Fred has written a ton of …

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