Holding the Tension of Holy Saturday
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender have a poignant conversation about making space for the tension and grief of Holy Saturday. In the protestant Christian tradition, the movement from Good Friday to Easter Sunday often bypasses Saturday—the day Jesus “spent time before the face of evil itself.” How then do we engage the reality of Holy Saturday, to sit well in the space between the despair of Friday and the joy of Sunday?
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen. |
| 0:10.5 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 0:14.7 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's get this conversation started. |
| 0:28.3 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, Rachel, let me just say it's nice to be with you again. I appreciate you taking it on. I had a lovely opportunity to be with a few others, but nice to be |
| 0:41.7 | back co-hosting with you. And today is Holy Saturday. And it is a day that in the experience |
| 0:52.0 | of the Easter weekend, I would argue we as Protestants have done the least |
| 1:00.5 | with Saturday than either Friday or Sunday. And we want to make sure for those who are caught |
| 1:08.7 | obviously in a very difficult day, not only the day, Saturday, but in |
| 1:14.6 | the middle of COVID-19, we need to articulate well why this is such an important day and why |
| 1:22.1 | it has not really been that important of a place, space, time for many, at least in the historical experience of Easter. |
| 1:36.3 | So I would love to know, you know, what has Holy Saturday been for you historically? |
| 1:42.3 | What is it for you now? That is such a great question. And I, |
| 1:49.4 | I will be honest, my church upbringing, I think maybe we had Good Friday services. I wasn't as |
| 1:58.9 | well acquainted with those until more of my adult years. |
| 2:03.1 | So really, the primary focus was on Easter as just a day of celebrating all the work that |
| 2:09.7 | Jesus had accomplished. And so to me, even like Friday and Saturday of Easter weekend were |
| 2:17.0 | more just normal days. |
| 2:19.3 | And maybe there was, I will say, being a Southern Baptist in the context of a Roman Catholic |
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