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Those who limit Easter to the bodily appearances of Jesus slight this promise of Jesus: “I will appear to them.” In worship, we should expect
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Those who limit Easter to the bodily appearances of Jesus slight this promise of Jesus: “I will appear to them.” In worship, we should expect

Well-rehearsed when I walked on to the stage, as my mother had instructed, I summoned up my biggest voice and announced, sans microphone, my welcome

How is the risen Lord present to us and how not? And what are the relevance of those two realities? Resurrection questions.

John 13:31-35 “Joy” may be too big a word. Joy tends to put pressure on us. Consider what happens to many people at Christmas. Perhaps

Like a third dimension in a two-dimensional world, those who know only two-dimensional space will find this new dimension utterly puzzling and counter-intuitive.

Failure is written all over this story, Peter’s failures, the church’s failure, your failures and mine. But Jesus is not done with them

We are the creatures who breathe God. To be human is to breathe God.

The New Testament on resurrection is multiple, layered, giving us first one perspective and then another.

Reading Genesis by the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson is occasionally aggravating, sometimes confounding, but mostly a brilliantly engaging encounter with the text. The opening