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Author: Gary R Gromacki PhD Category: General Apologetics Created: 01 May 2021 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty (1 Cor 15:14). For Christians the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the foundation of our faith. Apart from the resurrection, there is no gospel, no good news for a despairing world. This article was first published in the Spring 2002 Journal of Ministry and Theology, published by Baptist Bible Theological Seminary, Clarks Summit, Pa. It has reproduced here with permission of the author. One of the strongest arguments for the historicity of the resurrection is the resurrection appearances of Jesus to his disciples and to unbelievers who then became believers. ....
Heather L. Hart Out of Place: Christian community in 1 Peter and James The green outline of his face was a caricature, the name inaccurate. Yet, we didn’t think twice about our school mascot, we were the “Indians.” We cheered his image at games and emblazoned his likeness on yearbooks. It was years later before I heard an Indigenous American Christian speak about her heartbreak at this type of appropriation of tribal culture. I was left reconsidering my perspective and my assumptions. How does our Christian community live as God’s people when we are often either blind to appropriation or heartbroken at the pervasiveness of it? We are meant to embrace our unified identity as the people of God and help bring God’s purpose and blessing to the world, yet our experience of the world vastly differs. ....