On-Line Resources for the Season of Easter

• General Resources:
  • Planning Helps and Resources for Easter / Great Fifty Days, United Methodist Church GBOD.
  • Easter Season, ELCA.
  • Materials for Lent, Easter, and Pentecost, Reformed Church in America.
  • Online Resources for Lent, Holy Week and Easter, ELCIC's "Lift Up Your Hearts".
• Worship Planning:
  • The Progression of Eastertide, Year B -- Planning for Worship and Preaching, Taylor Burton-Edwards, United Methodist Church GBOD.
  • "Testify: A Call to Worship for the Sundays of Easter," for Youth, Young Adults and the Young at Heart, the Rev. Dr. Safiyah Fosua, 21st Century Africana Worship Resources, United Methodist Church GBOD, 2009.
  • Wellspring Liturgies for Lent and Easter, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
  • "From Emmaus to Jerusalem: Easter-Season Preaching," Safiyah Fosua, United Methodist Church General Board of Discipleship.
  • "Whom Do You Seek?" A Drama for the Opening of Easter Worship, United Methodist Church General Board of Discipleship.
  • Lent and Easter Resources, prayers, liturgies, etc, Katherine Hawker, Outside the Box.
  • Liturgies and Ideas for the Easter Season, Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
  • Prayers on a theme of Easter, Christian Prayers & Resources inspired by the Celtic Christian Church.
  • Worship Resources by Lisa Frenz, Mt. Carmel Lutheran Church, Portland, OR.
  • Inclusive Language Seekers Liturgies from Seekers Church:
    • "Seeing In a New Light" (Easter 2005)
    • "Behold, I Am Doing a New Thing!" (Easter 2004)
    • "Threatened with Resurrection!" (Easter 2003)
    • "Bearing Witness" (Easter 2002)
    • "Turning our World 'nwoD edispU'" (Easter 2001)
    • "The Future is Possible" (Easter 2000)
    • "Resurrection: Now What?" (Easter 1999)
    • "The Tree of Life" (Easter 1998)
    • "Wondering if it's True" (Easter 1997)
    • "Rejoice!" (Easter 1996)
  • Lent and Easter Worship Resources from Jeff Showder's The Billibong.
• Art and Music:
  • Image-links at The Text This Week's Art Concordance:
    • Resurrection of Christ
    • Emmaus
    • Noli Me Tangere
    • Thomas
    • Ascension
  • "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today," PowerPoint version for projection, The United Methodist Church General Board of Discipleship. (.ppt file)
  • "Lift the Light," Linda Dickson and George Mann, Eastertide Response for SSATB Choir, United Methodist Church GBOD.
• Devotionals, etc:
  • A Thought a Day for the 50 Days of Easter, explorefaith.org.
  • Learning to Make Easter Bread, poetry by Patricia Flower Vermillion, Theology Today, 1993.
  • Meditations and Prayers for Lent and Easter by Victor Hoagland, C.P.
  • "Journaling as a Spiritual Practice for Easter," explorefaith.com.
• Articles:
  • "Journaling as a Spiritual Practice for Easter," explorefaith.com.
  • The Blessing of Easter Food and About the Resurrection Services on Easter at Byzantine.Net (Byzantine Catholics on the Web).
  • Easter and Easter Controversy, from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • "Divine Folly: Being Religious and the Exercise of Humor," Doris Donnelly. Theology Today, 1991.
  • "The Mystery of Paschal Time," Abbot Gueranger O.S.B.
  • "The History of Paschal Time," Abbot Gueranger O.S.B.
  • "Practice During Paschal Time," Abbot Gueranger O.S.B.
  • Environmental Reflections from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota's Environmental Stewardship Commission: General Easter Reflection and General Reflection on the Easter Lectionary Readings.
  • The Easter Story, from "Heathen Holidays," by Sister Denise Snodgrass. (Pagan origins of Easter & Easter customs.)
• Online Resources for In-Depth study of the Resurrection Accounts:
  • Matthew 28:1-10 - Matthew 28:16-20
  • Mark 16:1-8 - Mark 16:9-20
  • Luke 24:1-12 - Luke 24:13-49 - Luke 24:44-53
  • John 20:1-18 - John 20:19-31 - John 21:1-19
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  • Bartlett, David, "The Easter Texts: Hope, Comfort, Courage," Journal for Preachers, 2006. (Year B)
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  • Clayton, Kimberly L., "The Easter Texts: Getting Hold (or not) of Easter," Currents in Theology and Mission, 2007.
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  • Daniel, Thomas, "Easter Preaching to Young Adults," Journal for Preachers, 2006.
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  • Lowry, James S., "Preaching the 2009 Easter Texts," Journal for Preachers, 2009.
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  • Moore-Keish, Martha, "Death in the Midst of Life, life in the Midst of Death: Preaching and Worship in the Easter Season," Journal for Preachers, 2006.
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  • Norfleet, Agnes W., "Preaching the Easter Texts," Journal for Preachers, 2008. (Year A)
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  • Taylor, Barbara Brown, "Preaching Easter," Journal for Preachers, 2006.
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