Rise—when The End isn’t the end
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As people of the resurrection, we can both love the concept and also refuse to accept that it has anything to do with our lives.
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As people of the resurrection, we can both love the concept and also refuse to accept that it has anything to do with our lives.
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Moving from Pentecost to Trinity Sunday means, once again, switching gospels. To one with some valuable context.
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The ashes we use in Lent, to remember our place, are not generic. It isn’t proverbial. It is about our life and death.
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The famous question from the Sadducees to Jesus about the resurrection is particularly haunting to modern Christians.
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Notice that we don’t say Jesus rose from the dead. The resurrection is not the work of Jesus. It is the work of God in Jesus.
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The thing about faith is that we don’t just want to be better. We want to want to be better. And that is where the magic is.
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The empty tomb reveals both the joy and fear of new things: and our tendency to assume what our faith tells us not to.
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The one thing people know about Jesus is that he died and then came back. One minute he became dead. Then he wasn’t. Christians throughout history have made a big thing out of this. I mean, it is a pretty awesome story. But I think, in a sense, we’ve overstated it. We act like the…