A Post-Easter Meditation

Last updated on: March 28, 2016 at 10:41 pm by Brian McLaren

A Post-Easter Meditation 2016-03-28T22:41:46-04:00 Brian McLaren

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For many people, Holy Week is a time of triumphant faith. But for others, it raises all kinds of questions and doubts. Here is a meditation from Duane Clinker especially for the latter:

http://loveandresist.blogspot.com/2016/03/an-apology-for-faith-in-love-by-duane.html

Quotable:

After his death, instead of being crushed as the empire expected, his followers actually grew and spread his words and actions throughout the empire. They spoke brutally of death, but also of a kind of resurrection powered by Love. In those first years they often seemed to lose every sense of class bondage and they shared what they had. Many followers suffered similar fates as he, but they kept on as if something was burning now that could not be extinguished by swords or crosses or personal affliction. And, as foolish as it sounded, they testified, and acted like they were still experiencing this Jesus as a living presence; as if they knew that history could change and that nothing could separate humankind from this kind of Love.It was as if they had seen, in the vulnerability of God, a kind of God who was with us in the pain of creation, in the contradiction of life, as a kind of answer that involved human action in the direction of the universal Love that creation had loosed.

More here: http://loveandresist.blogspot.com/2016/03/an-apology-for-faith-in-love-by-duane.html

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