…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…
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…
…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…
(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…
…sleep. 14Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”…
…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…
…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…
…role of Ezekiel in this vision should be attended to. YHWH doesn’t restore the dead bones of Israel to life immediately, but through the inspired word of his prophet and…
…are no longer deaf, and dead are no longer dead. In this list being poor is the only non-physical affliction. All the others, such as being deaf or lame are…