by Mitch Randall | Apr 14, 2022 | Opinion
The apex of Holy Week for most Christians is either Friday’s crucifixion or Sunday’s resurrection. For me, the crescendo of the week is Thursday night in the Garden of Gethsemane. As Passover approached, Jesus moved closer and closer to Jerusalem. He set up shop in...
by Jack Moline | Apr 14, 2022 | Opinion
My wife and I may be the only family to have designed a home around two consecutive nights each year. We have always taken seriously the declaration of the Passover seder – all who are hungry, come and eat; all who need to do so, come and partake of the Passover...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 13, 2022 | Opinion
He was sitting there in the dayroom, looking small in a new wheelchair that allows him to lean back, draped in a shoulder throw that looked like a watermelon. Somebody must have thought it would be a good idea, but we quickly replaced it with his jacket. My father...
by Richard Wilson | Apr 13, 2022 | Opinion
The Christian Testament is thin when it comes to references to the resurrection. At the same time, resurrection is the central confession of Christianity. The Christian Testament does not offer a seamless narrative of the events surrounding the death, burial and...
by Jim Hopkins | Apr 13, 2022 | Opinion
Strange. That’s how biblical scholar Marcus Borg characterized the letter of Jude. In Evolution of the Word, he wrote, “Jude is perhaps the strangest document in the New Testament. It is one of the shortest, about a page long, and is the most enigmatic.” One of the...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 12, 2022 | Opinion
An insight picked up somewhere many years ago has stayed with me — especially when considering the cruel cross of Jesus which looms on the horizon of our spiritual journey. Societies seek to oppose and eliminate that which is considered below the acceptable standards...
