He is Risen!
April 8, 2007
He is Risen Indeed!
In many ways this Easter will be like all the other Easters that have come before - Christians around the world will gather to celebrate the risen Christ, newness of life and hope for our world. However, this is one of the first times I haven’t gone to worship on Easter morning. [...]
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“In the end - the beginning…”
March 27, 2005
[Photo from the 5am Great Vigil of Easter at the Princeton University Chapel]
Jurgen Moltmann writes, in his book "In the End - the Beginning: The Life of Hope" the following:
"Yet his end became his true beginning. His public death was followed by Easter appearances…and with these appearances the new beginning was inaugurated…The disciples who had [...]
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In preparation for Easter…
March 16, 2005
I got an email from a friend who I got to know while I was speaking at Niner’s Camp last year at Camp Sawtooth. She is a bright young girl who is really thinking theologically and asking some wonderful questions about her life and faith. She emailed me a few weeks ago and wanted me [...]
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Easter with family
April 12, 2004
My parents and sister came up this weekend for Easter weekend and we had some good times together. We went out to some waterfalls together and took a cute family picture, had lunch where my mom and sister actually drank alcohol(!), drove around and looked at pretty Idaho stuff and went to church Easter morning. [...]
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Paschal Service
April 12, 2004
Reading of Paschal Homily | St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
Andrew,, Jean and I went to the Paschal Service (for more info, go here) at Fr Patrick’s church, St. Ignatius of Antioch Church. The service lasted from 10.30pm - 1.30am.
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Resurrection
April 10, 2004
“Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. The Resurrection, in the full Jewish and early Christian sense, is the ultimate affirmation that creation matters, that embodied human beings matter.”
N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God
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Resurrection
April 9, 2004
“The resurrection is God’s way of revealing to us that nothing that belongs to God will ever go to waste. What belongs to God will never get lost - not even our mortal bodies.”
Henri J.M. Nouwen, Our Greatest Gift
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Resurrection
April 8, 2004
“There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!”
Madeleine L’Engle, The Irrational Season
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Resurrection
April 7, 2004
“After Calvary, peace was no longer to operate on the thin blade of truth or in the court of law, but in the torn heart of a God who had become human for us in Jesus Christ.”
Carlo Carretto, Letters From the Desert
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Resurrection
April 6, 2004
“What one sees depends on where one sets up shop. Mine is at the entrance of the empty tomb.”
W. Paul Jones, interview
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