In lieu of saying “Happy Easter” many of our eastern Christian brethren say “Christ is risen; he is risen indeed!” With the Resurrection in mind, it is worth considering how the resurrected body is ...
The Sunday's lectionary reading for the Third before Advent in Year C is Luke 20.27–38, and epistle is Paul's discussion of the 'man of lawlessness' in 2 Thess 2. For video discussions, see here for ...
The history of how the cemetery came to represent many forms — religious, civic, military, private — but lost its Catholic heart.
How might Christians have a more truly theological conversation about identity? We could start with Jesus. One thing we learn from Jesus’ resurrection body, as narrated in the gospels, is that there ...
As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Other charismatic Jewish teachers or ...
Most Americans don't believe they will experience a resurrection of their bodies when they die, putting them at odds with a core teaching of Christianity. The findings of a new Scripps Howard/Ohio ...
Paul wrote this letter in about 54 CE to the congregation at Corinth as a response to a letter his followers sent to him asking for clarification on some of his teachings. He voices his concern about ...
In Weymouth’s translation of Acts 25:19 we find “They quarreled with him about … one Jesus who had died, but—so Paul persistently maintained—is now alive.” Christians even before Paul’s day ...
A recent news report out of Kentucky revealed a slim but pointed risk regarding organ donation, one that underscores a key Church teaching about how the process of gifting one’s organs must play out.
Edwardsville English teacher Kirk Schlueter joins the likes of fellow poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell with his newest ...