2016-03-28T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: March 28, 2016 at 12:00 am   By

In a 1953 speech delivered in New York marking the 20th anniversary of the Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine, Raphael Lemkin retold the chilling story of the Soviet Union’s deliberate liquidation of Ukraine’s churches, its “soul” and its “brain.” “Going along with this attack on the intelligentsia was an offensive against the churches, priests and hierarchy, the ‘soul’ of Ukraine. Between 1926 and 1932, the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church, its Metropolitan Lypkivsky and 10,000 clergy were liquidated. In 1945, when the... Read more

2016-03-28T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: March 28, 2016 at 12:00 am   By

Paul says, Christ is our life. Not, Christ gives us life, or Christ defends our life, or Christ supports our life. No: Christ is our life. I died, Paul tells the Galatians, and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. We died with Christ, and Christ lives in us by the Spirit so that our lives conform to His life, repeatedly dying and living again. We are radically decentered. The center of your life is not in you.... Read more

2016-03-28T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: March 28, 2016 at 12:00 am   By

Paul says, Christ is our life. Not, Christ gives us life, or Christ defends our life, or Christ supports our life. No: Christ is our life. I died, Paul tells the Galatians, and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. We died with Christ, and Christ lives in us by the Spirit so that our lives conform to His life, repeatedly dying and living again. We are radically decentered. The center of your life is not in you.... Read more

2016-03-27T00:00:00+06:00

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On the third day after Jesus’ death, women came to the tomb to dress the body and found the tomb empty, heard from angels that Jesus had risen from the dead, and shortly after encountered Jesus Himself. It really happened. If it really happened, then the power of tyrants is shattered. The power of tyranny is the power of death, but if death is reversible, if dead people do come back to life after life after death, then the tyrant’s... Read more

2016-03-27T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: March 27, 2016 at 12:00 am   By

On the third day after Jesus’ death, women came to the tomb to dress the body and found the tomb empty, heard from angels that Jesus had risen from the dead, and shortly after encountered Jesus Himself. It really happened. If it really happened, then the power of tyrants is shattered. The power of tyranny is the power of death, but if death is reversible, if dead people do come back to life after life after death, then the tyrant’s... Read more

2016-03-26T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: March 26, 2016 at 12:00 am   By

Holy Saturday is the mystery of God’s silence, and it is a great mystery. But the Son of God cannot claim Sheol as its Lord without turning death upside down. Death cannot hold Him. He is too big. Silence cannot muzzle the eternal Word, not forever. His descent is harrowing for Hades. Jesus rises from the grave, still the Word, dispelling fear, reassuring doubters, commissioning disciples, teaching everything concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. He twists death inside out, just... Read more

2016-03-25T00:00:00+06:00

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Terry Eagleton (Culture and the Death of God) observes that culture was once considered the solution to the twentieth century’s loss of religion. The ambiguity of “culture” – its “aesthetic” elite meaning and its popular “anthropological” meaning – was exploited to serve political ends. TS Eliot understood that religion could be both mythology (for the masses) and theology (for the elite), and culture followed this same bifurcation: “There is a distinction at work here between the conscious and the unconscious,... Read more

2016-03-25T00:00:00+06:00

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Anthony Pagden is worried about the rise of religion in the past several decades (The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters). He fears “the outcome might indeed be something close to the nightmare dreamed up by the contemporary American philosopher and psychologist Daniel Dennett: ‘The Enlightenment is long gone: the creeping secularization of modern societies that has been anticipated for two centuries is evaporating before our eyes . . . religion soon resumes something like the dominant social and moral... Read more

2016-03-25T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 12:00 am   By

Anthony Pagden is worried about the rise of religion in the past several decades (The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters). He fears “the outcome might indeed be something close to the nightmare dreamed up by the contemporary American philosopher and psychologist Daniel Dennett: ‘The Enlightenment is long gone: the creeping secularization of modern societies that has been anticipated for two centuries is evaporating before our eyes . . . religion soon resumes something like the dominant social and moral... Read more

2016-03-25T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 12:00 am   By

Jesus’ death does not contradict His sovereignty. It is a revelation of His sovereign Lordship. Jesus’ life and death reveals that God is Lord not only over all things He is Lord in all things. He is not only Lord over the safe confines of heaven, but Lord in the rough and tumble of Roman and Jewish politics. Not only Lord over galaxies, but Lord in the world of hunger and thirst. Not only the Lord over nations, but the... Read more

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