COLEMAN: Church the week after Easter

COLEMAN: Church the week after Easter

By Rev. Landon Coleman Pastor, Immanuel Editor’s note: A version of this column was published four years ago. I hope you went to church last Sunday on Easter, and I hope you’re planning to attend church tomorrow, the Sunday after Easter. For those of you who attended church last week but are on the fence about this week, consider these seven reasons you should go to church the Sunday after Easter — and, by the way, the week after that, too! God …

The first Sunday after Easter marks Thomas Sunday, the day that concludes Bright Week and is named after the Apostle Thomas, the "doubting one." This day is one of special significance for Orthodox Christians and is associated with several popular traditions and superstitions.