Were you here last week, either online or in person? The threshold for our reflection today, the springboard from which we might make a journey together, is Philo’s arresting declaration last week from the pulpit: “I deny the resurrection.” By quoting that sentence separated out from the entirety of her thinking, I am doing Philo’s … Continued
Resurrection is a central tenant of the Christian faith and Easter is the primary celebration of resurrection. What does resurrection mean? There are about as many different explanations of Christ’s resurrection as there are Christians. For a whole lot of Christians, “believing in the resurrection” means believing in the actual physical resuscitation of Jesus’ body. … Continued
My reflection today has developed from the lectionary reading of Luke 24:36-48 and several books I have been reading recently. “The Meaning of Jesus” is a kind of dialogue between the conservative theologian NT Wright and the progressive theologian Marcus Borg. “The Trouble with Resurrection” is an account of how followers of Jesus shifted their … Continued
Easter Day, today, is traditionally regarded as the most important day in the liturgical life of the church. Is Easter about the transformation of Jesus’ corpse, the most spectacular miracle ever? Did God literally raise Jesus from the dead in physical bodily form? Is the Easter story to be treated as a parable of the … Continued
In churches (physical and virtual) all over the world, preachers are hauling Lazarus out of his well-worn tomb. So, let me deconstructed what some believe is a miracle, so that the story could be of some use to us as we journey through Lent in the 21st century. Lazarus has been lying in his tomb for four … Continued