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Eben Alexander, the neurosurgeon who four years ago survived a near-death experience, ponders the meaning of resurrection and its implications for our view of death.
If we miss the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter, we miss a crucial part of the Holy Week story.
We will always run into problems if we seek to understand the death of Jesus in isolation from the rest of the story that surrounds his crucifixion.
In the fifth presentation of the “Animate” series Nadia Bolz-Weber issues a challenge to think about our vision of the cross and its implications for our understanding of the nature of God and God’s relationship to humankind. But, before moving too quickly to a consideration of the cross, it is important to examine our understanding of the nature of Jesus. Read the rest of this entry »
It is easier to talk about death and pain, than beauty and light.
Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. (John 20:11)
The idiom “seeing is believing” has its origins in the Gospel of John’s account of the resurrection of Jesus.
Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. (John 20:3,4)
Nothing anyone could ever say or write can begin to do justice to Terrence Malick’s new film, “The Tree of Life.”
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This is the last of my reflections on “People of the Passion,” based on some of the minor characters who appear in the Passion narratives in all four gospels.
Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
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