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The Christian Century Magazine
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http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=6560
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| April 21, 2009 |
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| The empty tomb |
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| John 20 That woman was the first word spoken must have taken even the angels by surprise, who were used to bringing their fiery glory down to the clanging swords of battlefields, to priests tugging at their beards in lamentation, to voices thundering in temples and muscles hefting stones from mountaintops, not to a trembling woman whose hair clung to her neck with tears, who for a moment held the souls of the nations like a basket of figs. |
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