Althouse: Easter sunrise service.

April 17, 2022

Easter sunrise service.

15 comments:

David Begley said...: Is that a first during all of Ann’s trips to Picnic Point?; 4/17/22, 6:58 AM
Temujin said...: Beautiful.; 4/17/22, 7:00 AM
Humperdink said...: "(Thomas) Hoenig lost his fight. Throughout 2010, the FOMC (aka Fed Open Market Committee) votes were routinely 11 against one, with Hoenig being the one. He retired from the Fed in late 2011, and after that, a reputation hardened around Hoenig as the man who got it wrong. He is remembered as something like a cranky Old Testament prophet who warned incessantly, and incorrectly, about one thing: the threat of coming inflation ...

"While Hoenig was concerned about inflation, that isn’t what solely what drove him to lodge his string of dissents. The historical record shows that Hoenig was worried primarily that the Fed was taking a risky path that would deepen income inequality, stoke dangerous asset bubbles and enrich the biggest banks over everyone else ... On all of these points, Hoenig was correct ....

"The Fed is now in a vise."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177

No kidding.; 4/17/22, 7:32 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Χριστός 'aνέστη!

The missus and I were wondering aloud about sunrise services. Hadn't seen churches doing them much any more. The church we belonged to in Madison used to hold them on the rooftop at the Princeton Club but by the time we moved from WI there were no more outdoor sunrise services. And then, voila! We see one right here on the blog. Thanks.; 4/17/22, 8:28 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: “When somebody does you wrong, just give’m a kiss” - Chris Rock; 4/17/22, 8:29 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Is that a first...?"

No. I've run into religious services before. And weddings, which might be religious.; 4/17/22, 8:31 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: I wish I had faith. I had no religious training growing up, well actually I had no training at all, but that’s a different story. I have an intellectual awareness of religions and have read the Old and New Testaments. My wife is a very lapsed Catholic and has no interest in rejoining that church. In my area, most Protestant churches are very liberal politically and that has no appeal because I feel it confuses God and Caesar. I’ve always felt that to join a church without faith is too much like joining a club. Has anyone found faith through churchgoing or does general faith always precede the church experience? As an adult not a child.; 4/17/22, 8:34 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Ya Gotta Believe... https://youtu.be/jfzAxFbwArE; 4/17/22, 9:01 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Source of that Chris Rock quote above; a clip from Howard Stern.

link to video; 4/17/22, 9:08 AM
Browndog said...: Has anyone found faith through churchgoing or does general faith always precede the church experience?

Raised in a church going family, graduating from a Lutheran High school, I didn't "find faith" as you put it until I was out in the real world. In my case it was spontaneous, seemingly coming out of nowhere.

Open up a Bible and read with an open heart is my best advise.; 4/17/22, 9:23 AM
narciso said...: many of the Churches have fallen away because they don't preach the Word, otherwise it's just a social or political organization, it used to be one of the major pillars of society, that's why it has been battered so harshly,; 4/17/22, 9:30 AM
rcocean said...: Great picture. I like the idea (assuming its not raining) of having the Easter Service at sunrise outdoors. Sometimes being inside a church is 2nd best. I went to Church once, that held the Christmas Eve service under the stars with candles. It was cold, but it made quite an impact.; 4/17/22, 10:19 AM
Narr said...: I was raised Methodist and my wife was raised Catholic, but other than getting hitched by her parish priest in '77 neither of us have had anything to do with church or religion since.

I know very well what I am expected to believe, what I am expected to say, when I'm expected to say it, and with whom, and why, and I have no desire to do so.

And the 'spiritual but not religious' dodge is not for me.

Enjoy your holy days.; 4/17/22, 10:21 AM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/17/22, 2:24 PM
BG said...: Blogger Jefferson's Revenge said...
I wish I had faith. I had no religious training growing up, well actually I had no training at all, but that’s a different story...In my area, most Protestant churches are very liberal politically and that has no appeal because I feel it confuses God and Caesar. I’ve always felt that to join a church without faith is too much like joining a club. Has anyone found faith through churchgoing or does general faith always precede the church experience? As an adult not a child.

Jefferson's Revenge,
I belong to a conservative Lutheran church synod. I can't tell you about faith preceding the church experience, since I was born into it. As an adult I've studied the Bible and see how my church follows it. I am in my late 60s and still have "now I get it!" moments. In our church body a pastor will meet with someone who is interested in the church, going through a Bible information class. It is in that class that any questions are discussed. (I understand sometimes rather intensely!) Not everyone ends up joining since, as I said, we are a conservative church. Google conservative Lutheran churches and you will find them.
"...faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through the Word of Christ." Romans 10:17; 4/17/22, 5:56 PM