Today is Good Friday: the commemoration of the day that Jesus Christ died at Calvary. It's only fitting, then, that today's installment of "blogging for Lent" should be mindful of that.
Good friend of this blog and all around amazing guy "Lowbridge" found this a little while ago and shared it on another forum. I decided it was well worth passing along to this blog's readers as well. As good a thing as any for the occasion.
Longtime television viewers will recognize Agnes Morehead for her portrayal of Samantha's mother on the 1960s sitcom Bewitched. What I didn't know until just now was that Morehead was a devout Christian. She grew up in a Presbyterian house where her father was a minister. It's been said that Morehead brought her Bible with her to work every day, and would read from it between scenes. It also goes without saying that she was a phenomenal actress.
As part of Oral Roberts's Easter special in 1970, Morehead performed a dramatic reading of the Easter story. Here it is, for your edification:
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