Posted in easter on 21 April 2006 | 2 Comments »
“The death of Jesus of Nazareth as the king of the Jews, the bearer of Israel’s destiny, the fulfillment of God’s promises to his people of old, is either the most stupid, senseless waste and misunderstanding the world has ever seen, or it is the fulcrum around which world history turns.”
N.T. Wright, Simply Christian, p.111
Posted in easter, eschatology on 16 April 2006 | 1 Comment »
Maybe the message of Easter is simple after all; maybe it can be summed up in this word ‘resurrection.’ Again, it’s tempting to reduce Easter to what it accomplishes. It’s easy to think of the empty tomb and jump straight to elaborate atonement theories and speculation about how the resurrection completes the transaction [...]
Posted in easter on 15 April 2006 | 3 Comments »
My Good Friday has included a couple of reminders about the cross of Christ as a lens through which to view the world and myself as a part of it. I’ve always thought of the cross in terms of what it accomplished, what it makes possible, what it’s useful for. The cross was [...]
