public display of religious affiliation<\/a>.<\/p>\n* The cross would seem to represent Christ’s death. For his resurrection, and as a reference to Easter (vs Good Friday), wouldn’t you want an image of the empty tomb?<\/small><\/p>\n
** In addition to the AFA’s website name, which is an interestingly self-aggrandizing advertisement to blend with the “beautiful message.”<\/small><\/p>\n
*** actually “Easter” is the name ( “Eostre” ) of an Saxon goddess of “fertility and sunrise” whose Vernal Equinox feast day roughly corresponded to the lunar-based date of the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection … and so was used (per Venerable Bede) by the Saxons as the name (along with various traditions) for that celebration.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I get emails from the American Family Association.\u00a0 And today’s was … entertaining. I invite you to join other believers in wearing and giving away these “He Lives” Easter buttons. Create an opportunity to lead a friend, neighbor or even a stranger to the cross of Jesus Christ. Keep several in your pocket or purse; … Continue reading “Because nothing says “Christ is risen!” more than … a button that says “Christ is risen!””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1595,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/06\/button_button_w.html","url_meta":{"origin":16666,"position":0},"title":"Button, button, who’s got a button?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Dec-01 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Rather than plain ol' text links, some folks have developed clever little graphical buttons to represent their site. 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