I was in Seattle recently–Holy Week, actually–and I stopped inside a Catholic chapel in my friends’ neighborhood. This icon, known as Mary the Undoer of Knots, was on display. I’d never encountered it before, and something about it really resonated with me. We live in a society filled with people…
Today’s Moltmann Monday excerpt comes from his new book The Living God and the Fullness of Life on a section about embodied spirituality: As the word spirituality suggests, what we are talking about here is the seizure of the human being by God’s Spirit….But if the soul is defined through detachment…
1. The title is based on a quote the writers totally misunderstand. If you’re going to base two entire movies on a famous quote, go and read the source material first. As it happens, I highly doubt whoever wrote “God’s Not Dead” has read philosopher Frederick Nietzsche, or if they did,…
I don’t know about you, but I’m honestly beyond sick of politicians injecting Jesus into their platforms. I’m not saying faith isn’t political. It absolutely is; Jesus died a blatantly political death. But Jesus himself as the spokesperson of this party or that one? Color me skeptical and a little…
Happy Easter! Today’s selection comes from The Way of Jesus Christ in a section on the eschatological resurrection of Christ. If we look at the way these christophanies* and the Easter seeing of the men and women concerned were interpretatively perceived, we can discover three dimensions in their structure: The…
