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The four gospels and their very different endings
Some things are too big for a single narrative.
When and where did the resurrected Jesus first appear?
The Bible offers conflicting answers.
When we read scripture backward
by Greg Carey
What kind of faith gets you through 25 years in a refugee camp?
June 11, Trinity Sunday
2 Corinthians 13:11–13; Genesis 1:1–2:4a; Matthew 28:16–20
The phenomenon of women in groups, in community, has been near the front of my mind for some time.
It seems a little backward on the Sunday after Pentecost to receive instructions that have already been successfully carried out. Peter and the disciples blew them away last week, preaching up a storm of fire and spirit like a host of Rosetta Stone experts. But today we go back to the place where Jesus told them what to do: Go and make disciples.
Go and make disciples? More like wait and welcome converts.
At my baptism, I giggled.
When they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. Passages like this assure me there’s a place for me and the people I serve. Unlike John’s story of Thomas, Matthew didn’t single out one disciple as the doubter. He says that “some doubted.”
Compared to cosmologists, theologians have the advantage—and disadvantage—of revelation.