EASTER 2026 - BE RECONCILED AN EASTER STORY

 

TWO SONS OF AFRICA ONE A MUSLIM 

AND THE OTHER A CHRISTIAN

Their fathers did not see eye to eye and their relationship ended up in war. But their sons, Jaffar Amin, the son of Idd Amin former president of Uganda and Madaraka Nyerere son of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere former president of Tanzania, embarked on a journey of peace, of discovery and of reconciliation up Mt. Kilimanjaro, Uhuru peak 5895 metres above sea level. It's a grueling journey but they are determined. Will they reconcile and end the rivarly which has lasted for decades between their families? 

Trinity North Park and Maunday Thursday

  

Maundy Thursday Service at Trinity UMC, 4/02, 6 PM
Before the cross, there was a table.
Before the silence of Good Friday, there was the quiet, tender act of love.
On Maundy Thursday, we gather to remember that night...
through communion, hand washing, prayer, and gentle music.
It is a service of humility and grace.
Of being served, and learning to serve one another.
Come and enter the story.
Come and be held in its sacred rhythm.

Easter (and Holy Week) in the Episcopal Parish of St. Luke

 

EASTER 2026

We call this SoNoGo - South Park-North Park-Golden Hill & Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo 

Saint Patrick Catholic Parish

The Catholic Church Explained

Father Gregory Ashe was the founding pastor of St. Patrick’s parish, beginning in 1921 and serving until 1925 when he was replaced by Father Thomas Healy, the parish’s second pastor, and first Augustinian.  Father Ashe eventually returned to Buffalo, New York to serve in parish work.  He died there in 1934.  Father Healy served as pastor of St. Patrick’s for a year and a half, after which he returned to Pennsylvania. He died a short time later in January 1927 at the age of 54.  Both Fathers Ashe and Healy were born in Ireland. The 1920s were good to San Diego and the community of North Park.  Businesses were thriving, new arrivals spurred development, and optimism was high.  Under Father Daley’s guidance, the parish decided to commit to the construction of a magnificent structure, Romanesque in style, using the best architecture and artistry available.  Frank Hope was contracted as the architect and the M.H. Golden company did the construction.  The contract was signed on October 15th, 1928, and work began almost immediately.  Amazingly, the church, the present structure, was finished by Easter Sunday, 1929, in just about six months, but it wasn’t dedicated until September 1929.  The cost of the structure was $37,000, and with all the interior additions the cost of the project was around $60,000.  Father Daley and the parishioners of St. Patrick’s were justifiably proud of their accomplishments.  The next step would be the construction of a school, and it probably would have gone forward but for one obstacle: the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

Churches try drones and skydiving bunnies for Easter outreach

Churches try drones and skydiving bunnies for Easter outreach*
Christianity Today: “We want to make it about Jesus and getting people excited about the Easter season and going to church somewhere,” one pastor said.

 

His arrest went viral. Now Rev. Michael Woolf is preaching what he calls ‘Sanctuary values.’
Religion News Service: The photo of his arrest during a protest against ICE has given the Chicago-area pastor a platform to share a theology that centers immigrants and that harkens back to the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s.

 

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris is free after 6 months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse
The Associated Press: The founder of a Texas megachurch who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s was released Tuesday after serving six months in an Oklahoma jail.

 

Why Catholicism is drawing in Gen Z men*
The Washington Post: Young men in their 20s and 30s are increasingly drawn to the Catholic Church as they seek truth, beauty and, yes, girlfriends.

 

Israel’s new death penalty law sparks outcry from liberal Jewish groups
Religion News Service: Rabbinical groups said the law flies in the face of Jewish tradition and violates international principles of due process and equal protection under the law.

Christians should celebrate the Supreme Court’s "conversion therapy" ruling

Russell Moore on zombies, ghosts, and the Resurrection.

For Easter festivities this year, some churches are doing everything from helicopter egg drops to a skydiving Easter Bunny.

Christians should celebrate the Supreme Court’s "conversion therapy" ruling, professor Daniel Bennett writes.

What Jesus’ Maundy Thursday institution of the Lord’s Supper reveals about forgiveness.

A Q&A with author and journalist Jonathan Cheng on the evangelical roots of North Korea’s personality cult.

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Behind the Story

Today news writer Megan Fowler chronicles some of the creative ways churches are celebrating Easter. She and CT staffers weighed in on how their churches have celebrated Easters past and present:

From Megan: I just looked back at a piece I reported in 2020 on how churches pivoted their Easter outreach programs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some churches held Easter egg hunts to-go, with families driving up to the church to get a bag with all the supplies for at-home Easter egg hunts. Others encouraged members to serve first responders, like those working at hospitals and fire departments. But one church built a Minecraft server and held a digital Easter egg hunt. That seemed like an unexpected, fun way to engage students during a really dark time.

From editorial director for features Ashley Hales: We do a community egg hunt in a nearby park and a free lunch barbecue on Saturday. With some old-fashioned three-legged races, it’s lots of fun.

From senior news writer Cody Benjamin: It’s Holy Week, which means hundreds of hands are mixing, rolling, and dipping chocolate to fill mounds of egg cartons with homemade peanut butter eggs in the fellowship hall of Lititz Trinity, a 154-year-old Pennsylvania church in one of America’s coolest small towns—which also happens to be where I grew up. This was my grandparents’ church, but it was also like part of my family every Easter, when everyone and their mother from the Lititz area would line up to collect preordered treats by the dozens. The annual extravaganza is for a good cause, with funds fueling Trinity mission trips, but I think everyone who’s tasted these famous oversize peanut butter eggs would say they’ve been served as well. Sometimes God’s love is just sweet like that. A federal judge rejected a settlement that would have lifted a decades-long ban on pastors endorsing candidates, known as the Johnson Amendment. He also dismissed the lawsuit filed by the National Religious Broadcasters, which plans to appeal the decision. After serving six months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse, Gateway Church founder Robert Morris was released. CT covered Morris’s indictment and guilty plea. In oral arguments for a case dealing with the Trump administration’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, justices seemed skeptical of the president’s side. Contributor Sara Kyoungah White wrote for CT about how Trump’s order affected citizens like her. Today in Christian History April 2, 1877: Fundamentalist Baptist evangelist Mordecai Ham is born in Allen County, Kentucky. At the end of his ministry, he claimed one million converts—including Billy Graham, who made a declaration of faith at a 1934 Ham meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Churches still barred from making political endorsements

Trump vows to hit Iran 'extremely hard' amid Catholic calls for peace President Trump's first address on the Iran war signaled continued military action, as Catholic leaders called for dialogue and a ceasefire. Artemis II moon mission ‘a great development,’ Vatican Observatory director says EWTN News speaks with Jesuit Father Richard A. D’Souza, director of the Vatican Observatory since September 2025. Supreme Court grills both sides in ‘birthright citizenship’ oral arguments The U.S. Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order denying citizenship to children of parents without legal immigration status. Churches still barred from making political endorsements as federal judge dismisses case The National Religious Broadcasters’ general counsel, Michael Farris, said the organization was surprised by the ruling and plans to appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge permits access for clergy at Illinois immigration facility for Holy Week U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman’s order cited November 2025 comments from Pope Leo XIV calling for detained migrants to have access to spiritual care.

covenantchurchsd 03.29.2026

 

We call this SoNoGo - South Park-North Park-Golden Hill & Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo 

Covenant Presbyterian Church

What is the Evangelical Presbyterian Church?

Covenant Church at 30th & Howard  is a Christian church in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation and allied with the EPC [The Evangelical Presbyterian Church] We believe the Scriptures to be the infallible Word of God and our final authority in faith and practice, and we find the historic creeds of the early church (the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed) to be vital expressions of the most important tenets of the global church universal. When the EPC started in 1981, we determined that we would not disagree on the basic essentials of the Christian faith, but on anything that was not essential—such as the issue of ordaining women as officers or practicing charismatic gifts—we would give each other liberty. Above all, we committed ourselves to loving each other and not engaging in quarrels and strife. The result is that when we get together in our regional and national meetings, we spend most of our time in worship and fellowship and almost none in arguing with each other.

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Trump to continue supplying Title X grants to Planned Parenthood for another year A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said the agency will issue Title X grant notices for 2027 “matched with agency priorities.” Pope Leo makes Holy Week appeal to Trump, world leaders to end Iran war The pope expressed hope that President Donald Trump is seeking a way to decrease violence in the Middle East. Catholic priest fundraises, gives gift cards to unpaid TSA workers amid partial shutdown Father Jim Sichko raised $20,000 for gift cards for TSA workers while they were working without pay amid congressional negotiations about funding. Religious freedom panel warns of attacks against Christians in central Africa The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) sounded the alarm over Islamic State groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo after escalating violence against Christians.

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