In death, we enter into the tomb on Friday with Jesus, and like the disciples on Saturday, all we can do is to wait in the darkness, hoping for the miracle we were promised on Sunday.
Alexander McQueen’s theatrical catwalks presented a conflicted sketch of a miraculous, transformed, and beautiful body consistent with what Charles Taylor has identified as the theologically haunted condition of late-modern Romanticism.
Contemporary art maintains a provocative fascination with the body, and in recent years several key artists have explored the body’s place in the Christian tradition to disquieting ends.
In the days when our courthouse was being built, a mason—we don’t know who—came to …
Elizabeth Antus argues that an engagement with the work of best-selling author Geneen Roth enables Christians, especially women, to articulate resistance to the body-hating cycle of dieting and bingeing so prominent in US culture.
After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that …
Jason Byassee examines fatherhood, mortality, resurrection, and the hope of a good surf.
In this theological response to the Haiti earthquake, Nathan Kerr suggests that rather than merely speaking about God, Christians should inhabit a mode of speaking to God that responds to the oppressed victims of Haiti by living in solidarity with them, both in revolt against the powers that oppress and in hope that God might liberate them to live and love freely.
