Why we all really go to church on Easter Sunday (from a recent article in The Christian Century by Matt Fitzgerald)... If people came to church to hear reason, Easter would not be the most popular Sunday of the year because there is nothing sensible about the resurrection. Easter ought to leave us preachers scratching our heads. We are not able to define or even describe the resurrection. The empty tomb doesn’t fit into our understanding… We prize the mind’s ability to penetrate, grasp, order, and assimilate, but in this case our stupefaction is a very good thing. As Rowan Williams said, “You only get anywhere near the truth when all the easy things to say about God are dismantled, so that your image of God is no longer just a big projection of your(self).” You only get anywhere near the truth when all the sensible things to say about God are overwhelmed by the fact that Jesus just stepped up out of the grave… Easter gives us the opportunity to name the faith we aspire to: we long for a God who cannot be contained, confined, or even described, a God whose victory over the grave could redefine our lives…
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:55:06 +0000
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