On Easter, Learning to Stand in the Tragic Gap
We can either let the darkness have its way, or we can choose to stand in the gap, live in the light and lend our voices for truth, justice and freedom.
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Religion5 hours ago
The decade of the 1980s had just begun. I was all of 13, and had just undergone a couple of major surgeries. Suffering from post-surgical anxiety and possibly even borderline depression, I struggled as a young adolescent. (Thankfully, my father was a psychologist and I received the help I needed.)
On Easter morning that year, a neighbourhood friend who had been kind enough to keep me cheerful company during my time of convalescence, barged into my room and announced in a loud, theatrical whisper, âJesus is coming back!â
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By DIANA CHANDLER
Baptist Press Apr 4, 2021
Bible sales were strong but engagement no better than 2020. Stock.adobe.com
PHILADELPHIA (BP) â Americans bought more Bibles in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, industry leaders said, but a major study shows Bible engagement during the pandemic was no greater than the previous year.
Both Lifeway Christian Resources and Thomas Nelson Bibles saw increases in Bible sales, which a Thomas Nelson executive described as an increase seen industry wide.
But the American Bible Society (ABS), in conducting both its annual State of the Bible research in early 2020 followed by a special COVID-19 study months later, found that Bible engagement slacked after the pandemic began.
Bill Holland
14 hrs ago
Throughout history, no one has made a greater impact on this earth than Jesus Christ, yet many still do not understand who he is. During Christmas, people around the world acknowledge his birth was over 2000 years ago but actually he existed long before that. As the Son of God, Jesus is the Alpha and Omega which means he is from the beginning and has no end. This truth of him being infinite is beyond our comprehension, but nonetheless this spiritual reality places him in a unique category all by himself. Jesus said in John chapter eight and verse fifty-eight,
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As I reflect less on Easter fesitivies and more on faith, Rep. James Talarico’s prayer resonates.Tyler Sizemore /Hearst Connecticut Media
Easter has always been a time of celebration in my family Mass, Easter egg hunts, barbecue and, yes, cascarones. As I get older, I try to reflect less on the festivities and more on the mystery of faith and what it means in my life.
I was baptized and raised Catholic, and I am a member of a Christian church. I am not religious; some days I pray more than others, and I should read the Bible more. But I am faithful.
Acts 10:34, 37-43
34 Then Peter addressed them, I now really understand , he said, that God has no favourites,
37 You know what happened all over Judaea, how Jesus of Nazareth began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism.
38 God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil.
39 Now we are witnesses to everything he did throughout the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and they killed him by hanging him on a tree,
40 yet on the third day God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen,