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April 2021

April 06, 2021

Faithful Yet Clueless: A Resurrection Reflection

Easter Sunday’s Gospel presents faith or "being faithful" in a very different way than most...

April 04, 2021

Eastertide Resources on the Resurrection

Messy Inspirations offers several challenging resources about the Resurrection throughout Eastertide. The Eastertide proclamation is...

April 03, 2021

Jehovah the Hutt & Why Jesus Had To Die

Is your God a bloodthirsty sadistic Jehovah the Hutt?—your view of Jesus on Good Friday...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

Results for the Quiz on Jesus, Paul, & Gospels

Results from our recent quiz on Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels may surprise and challenge...

July 18, 2020

Quiz on Jesus, Paul, & the Gospels: How Much Do We Really Know?

Quiz yourself on just how well you understand Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Spurious familiarity...

June 2020

June 12, 2020

Straw Man Predilections & How Resurrection was Experienced

Straw man arguments, in theology and Scripture, don't become valid if they come from good...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Encountering the Risen Christ

Encountering Jesus risen and alive can be both an experience with someone very real and...

May 26, 2020

Hallucination or Resurrection? Visions of the Risen Jesus

Hallucination and psychosis, used as attempts to explain away Resurrection appearances, fails. Hallucination, aberration in...

May 21, 2020

Ascension of Jesus and Other Sky Journeys

Ascension of the Risen Jesus into the Realm of God is just one of many...

May 10, 2020

Seeing the Invisible God

Seeing God was something experienced regularly and routinely by the community that produced “John’s Gospel”...

May 01, 2020

ASC & Biblical Wonders: Etic VS Emic

ASC Experiences fill the Bible but are described in ways alien to Western understanding. ASC—the...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

Appearances of the Risen Jesus: Emmaus and Beyond

Appearances of Jesus risen and alive—like in the Emmaus story—vary among the Gospels, but insights...

April 20, 2020

Mourning at the Empty Tomb: Ancient Israelite Burial Customs

Mourning the dead was an important and lengthy process for first century Israelites, a process...

April 19, 2020

Thomas the Doubter

Thomas, the disciple associated with doubt and incredulity, is the featured character in the original...

April 15, 2020

Magdalene in “John”: Herald of the Resurrection

Magdalene, as presented in “John,” belongs to the highest status as the one officially commissioned...

April 13, 2020

Resurrection: Lazarus, Beloved Disciple, Believes

Resurrection, the center of and defining mystery to us Easter People, is the beginning and...

April 05, 2020

Resurrection, then Cross: How the Passion Story Evolved

Resurrection rather than the Cross is Ground Zero for Christianity, and how the Passion Story...