…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…
…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…
…the other who had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But…
…subjects experienced with each other, and that she experiences with them (244). These holy dead become our companions, just as they themselves so often reached back into time to form…
…mainstream. In the smash hit The Walking Dead, the survivors of a zombie apocalypse openly wonder about the religious meaning of their plight. In the season 2 finale, Herschel muses:…
…way. If they were socialized to adopt deadly responses, how do things end more positively in each encounter? And what can we learn from this? Starting with the Joseph story,…
…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…