With the start of the 2016 election season now coinciding with the publication of Kingdom Politics: In Search of a New Political Imagination for Today’s Church, we are reminded of…
…advent season. Each one implies the presence of God while simultaneously highlighting the liminality of the season. Afterall, Advent is the season between the comings, the space of absence in…
…perform which they owe the deceased person. The spiritual community of the church more graphically includes the dead as still belonging to it, with the dead represented in the icons…
…I was reading The Right to Maim, I was reading about the 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a refrigerated truck container in Britain. A New York Times article about…
(co-written with Brad Littlejohn) Christians worldwide are currently observing Lent, a penitential season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Generally speaking, modern western Christians are prone to approach these disciplines as…
…as mediums through which the dead speak. Can we, she asks, hold this to be true, while still honoring the dead as dead? Having just completed a book on devotion…
…still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, rise!” 15 The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. 16 Fear…
…would very soon return,” he wrote, “And the Romans did not know. They thought He was dead, forever dead. That was our great secret, our joyous knowledge. Despite all appearances,…
…hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place…
…4For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men. 5But the angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for…
…dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ…
…him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells…