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Among the many lessons I learned from dialoging with Bruce Chilton on his seminal book, Resurrection Logic: How Jesus; First Followers Believed God Raised Him
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest American mystics and prophets, Howard Thurman. I often invoke his teachings and
It is not only the Via Positiva—Resurrection, Easter, Springtime, and events of liberation such as Passover — that awakens us and that constitutes our mystical
I speak in my book, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth, of the need to fall in love at least three times
We meditated yesterday on the latest Biblical scholarship about Resurrection as laid out by Bruce Chilton and, more briefly, John Dominic Crossan. I posited that
The deep teachings from Bruce Chilton that he shares in his significant study, Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the
Much in the Resurrection story is set in the context of cosmology. Those persons who encountered Jesus after he died did not claim to have
How do we find meaning in suffering? How do we respond to it without projecting more suffering onto others? How do we, in Leonard Cohen’s
Bad theology can readily over-psychologize the Crucifixion. In the Gospels, the Good Friday event is placed in a cosmic context. Scholarship now tells us that
The Infancy narratives in the Christian story weave in significant passages from the Hebrew Scriptures. Early Christians went hunting and gathering into their Jewish heritage,
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