Resurrection of the Lord (Year B, RCL)

How can we proclaim any sort of hope right now? We aren’t the first Christians to wrestle with this question.

I understand why Mark’s editors added to his ending. Still, I wish they hadn’t.

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

Witness is an act of trust in a God who sends us to see and tell of all the things God is doing.

As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.

Churches tend to equate the notion of inclusion with hospitality. Peter and Cornelius suggest a more nuanced definition.

Some things are too big for a single narrative.

In a world where we aren’t trusted, Mary’s encounter with the risen Jesus is an act of solidarity.

Jesus’ question to Martha extends to all believers.

God swallowing up death indicates the ultimate defeat of sorrow and chaos.

Pastors face intense challenges—though not necessarily unique ones.

Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.

Resurrection flies in the face of everything we know to be true.

“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.

The Bible offers conflicting answers.

Christ’s invitation to new life is almost always unfamiliar and surprising, even disconcerting.