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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE?
THINKING ABOUT CHRISTIAN HOPE What happens when we die? Perhaps we should ask the question in more abstract, more overtly theological, way: what is the shape of Christian hope? I come in part to these questions because they have been forcefully raised by the popular New Testament scholar, N. T. Wright in his latest bestseller, God’s…
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CHANGING EXPECTATIONS
GETTING RESURRECTION RIGHT I’m back—from Europe, that is, from a part of Europe where religion remains vital—the countries of the former Yugoslavia—and where religious traditions meet, sometimes in peace and sometimes not. More on that in later posts. (If you would like an introduction to the complicated religious and political scene in the region, check…
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WHEN THINGS FALL APART
HOPE IN A TIME OF DISINTEGRATION Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.H. Yeats, “The Second…