What do you want Jesus to do or say?
resurrection
We don’t need to debate the possibility of a reanimated corpse. We need to reimagine our whole understanding of the material world.
“There’s a group of people outside,” I said through the intercom, “and they’ve raised money for your bail.”
Salvation is not a place but a way of life.
Messianic protest against the School of the Americas
In Kyle Lambelet’s view, SOA Watch demonstrates the virtues of a messianic politics.
Candida Moss asks what bodily resurrection means
How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do
In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic.
Accept the resurrection or don’t. Either way, you’re the boss.
Some of us church insiders have more in common with the undecided folks than we often say.
Resurrection isn’t something we explain. It’s something we live and breathe.
Can we revitalize our dying church? Should we?
Four books on congregations in decline, and what pastors can do
After We Die, by Stephen T. Davis
The Nicene Creed concludes with resurrection and eternal life. But, Stephen Davis observes, neither reality can be proved by experience.
There’s a stereotype that we more progressive Christians tend to downplay this stuff: that our interest in Jesus is mostly about his teaching, that if we do talk about something like the resurrection it’s only to debate whether it’s historically plausible. But I’m a lot less interested in evidence for the resurrection than I am in what the thing means. And I have learned, to my surprise and delight, that it actually means more to me now than it once did—before my faith took a bit of a leftward turn.
The story goes that God got a body. I’ve often pondered the relationship between incarnation and pain.
Maybe this is your real prayer for others and for yourself. “Make this trial and tragedy a glimpse of your glory, a window into your world.”