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Posted on April 26, 2020September 15, 2020 by Mark Schaefer

Questions of Faith: Is the Resurrection Real?

We can get hung up on the details that we imagine they are the things we’re supposed to have faith in. The arguments that Christians get in with non-Christians and with each other over the nature of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and how to understand it ignores the powerful world-changing reality at the heart of the proclamation. For this reality requires not our doctrinal assent but our discipleship. It calls us to follow in the path of faithful discipleship in the way of the one raised to new life. This is the meaning and the importance of the Resurrection for us.

Posted on April 12, 2020September 15, 2020 by Mark Schaefer

The Promised Land

Those early Christians entered into the Promised Land in the _midst_ of the Wilderness. Through their acts of witness, mercy, justice, and solidarity, they testified to the reality of the Kingdom that they now expected but that they knew was not here in its fullness. They lived in the tension between the already and the not-yet.

Posted on April 19, 2014September 21, 2020 by Mark Schaefer

For the Night Is Dark and Full of Terrors

The night is dark and full of terrors. But here we gather in the deepest part of the night to proclaim the coming of the light. Here in the depths of the night, we bear witness to the light of the Resurrection.

Posted on May 20, 2011September 21, 2020 by Mark Schaefer

Will There Be a Rapture?

Will there be a rapture? No. Not tomorrow, but, you know, eventually? No. Never? Never. Wait, why not? Allow me to explain. The Rapture, from the Latin raptus "seizing," refers to the belief by some Christians that at the End of Days, Jesus will return and take up the faithful into heaven with him. These…