Sharing Immortality
by Hans BoersmaEaster is good news: Our bodies too will be raised immortal, incorruptible—joined together with our souls in paradisal glory. Continue Reading »
Easter is good news: Our bodies too will be raised immortal, incorruptible—joined together with our souls in paradisal glory. Continue Reading »
Can anything we ever learn about history, about the universe, about ourselves compare with that reality in its sheer strangeness and wonderful improbability? He is risen; he is risen indeed. Continue Reading »
Toward the end of his short life, Anton Chekhov penned one of his shortest stories, “The Student.” Debates over Chekhov’s own faith continue; however, no one doubts that at the root of his soul sprang a human compassion that was without peer. He knew how to “weep with those who weep” (Rom. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here on earth, we may be tempted to believe the lie that the only reality is division and hatred, destruction and death. But the resurrection of Jesus puts us back in the Garden of Eden. Continue Reading »
Now it was Lent, and we were just forty days from Easter. Heavy rains and rising temperatures washed the snow away, and on Ash Wednesday, when I drove to the church, the sky was crowded with clouds seemingly blowing on different winds—heavy cumulus clouds, and behind and between them lighter . . . . Continue Reading »
Judas’s kiss was deeply painful, for his kiss was a betrayal, not just of a symbol, not just of a friend, but of the Kiss himself. Judas used a kiss to betray his Kiss. Continue Reading »
Jesus’s entrance into this world would be of no importance had he not been offered up as a sacrifice for the millennially-problematic human being. Continue Reading »
Mary Magdalene is in Paradise, in the Garden of Eden. But she doesn’t know it yet. Continue Reading »
John’s Gospel is about us believing and joining the eternal life of God. Continue Reading »
Easter comes at the end of the long Lent of Covidtide. Continue Reading »