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Talk:Resurrection Sunday (view source)
Revision as of 22:58, November 28, 2009
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== Church usage of "Resurrection Sunday" instead of "Easter" ==
== Church usage of "Resurrection Sunday" instead of "Easter" ==
Are there any examples of actual churches using Resurrection Sunday instead of Easter? I Googled the term and didn't find much, certainly not enough to convince me that the term Easter is becoming denigrated. The christiananswers.net source is weak in that it doesn't give any actual examples of churches changing terms. I have found plenty of churches that still use the term Easter, though. Saddleback Church[http://www.saddleback.com/index.html#], the United Methodist Church[http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.2514885/k.63E6/Lent_and_Easter_Resources.htm], at least one Catholic congregation[http://parishcalendar.com:8080/93/19811] (example taken from a pretty conservative part of the US), Thomas Road Baptist Church[http://home.trbc.org/index.cfm?PID=18511] (of Jerry Falwell fame) all use the term Easter, not Resurrection Sunday. (Please note that the links will likely not be relevant after this coming Easter.) I propose that we change the wording so that it doesn't suggest that eschewing the term Easter has become mainstream or even close to it. [[User:Corry|Corry]] 10:28, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
Are there any examples of actual churches using Resurrection Sunday instead of Easter? I Googled the term and didn't find much, certainly not enough to convince me that the term Easter is becoming denigrated. The christiananswers.net source is weak in that it doesn't give any actual examples of churches changing terms. I have found plenty of churches that still use the term Easter, though. Saddleback Church[http://www.saddleback.com/index.html#], the United Methodist Church[http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.2514885/k.63E6/Lent_and_Easter_Resources.htm], at least one Catholic congregation[http://parishcalendar.com:8080/93/19811] (example taken from a pretty conservative part of the US), Thomas Road Baptist Church[http://home.trbc.org/index.cfm?PID=18511] (of Jerry Falwell fame) all use the term Easter, not Resurrection Sunday. (Please note that the links will likely not be relevant after this coming Easter.) I propose that we change the wording so that it doesn't suggest that eschewing the term Easter has become mainstream or even close to it. [[User:Corry|Corry]] 10:28, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
Our Church [[Evangelical Apostolic Church of North America (Syro-Chaldean)]] uses "Feast of the Resurrection" for Easter but its best not to get too hung up about names. Otherwise we would be using, as in Judaism and in Israel, First Day of the Week instead of Sunday (the day of the Sun) and Fifth Day of the Week instead of Thursday (the day of Thor) and the First Month of the Secular Year instead of January (the double faced god Janus) and the Eighth Month instead of the Month of Augustus Caesar, etc.[[User:BertSchlossberg|Bert Schlossberg]] 17:58, 28 November 2009 (EST)