In such integration, matter belongs to spirit in a wholly new and different way, and spirit is utterly one with matter."6 On this view, bodily resurrection and beatific vision fit together within the context of "universal exchange and openness."7 Ratzinger cautions that it is impossible to ...
Dead or alive, we’re all in this together. The Mexicancalaveras, cartoonish depictions of skeletons performing the activities of the living, make this point with comedic verve. I once saw a woodcut of three skeletons in festive dress, arms around each other, smiling and waving as they loo...
Like a bad religion - the only one I knowI never had no shelter never had a place to goA bad religion - my life is make-believeBad religionI need someone to talk to - someone to understandI need a friend to lend a helping handI'm gonna pull myself together - shed this battered ...
It was a book that I didn’t want to stop listening to, one of the those that you sit listening to in the car, even after you arrive at your destination. But even more than the narration, I liked how Van Pelt wove the stories together. I cared about the characters (even the ocotp...
With a belief in Jesus, death is not an end but the beginning of a new life with no more tears sorrow, or pain.Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. We all die. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. It is not length of life, but depth...
Kid Rock is mourning the death of his father, William "Bill" Ritchie Sr., while celebrating the life of the Ritchie family patriarch, as fans of the musician learned on Friday (Feb. 16). "My Dad, Bill Ritchie Sr, moved on to be with Jesus yesterday," Kid Rock, whose real name is...
aOn one of those sober and rather melancholy days in thelatter part of autumn, when the shadows of morning and evening almost mingle together, and throw a gloom over the decline of theyear, I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey. There was something congenial to the ...
The first are those who were alive at the same time as Jesus and his Apostles, and would have either been personally aware of him or seen him. The next generation would be those who only knew Jesus as a matter of faith rather than a living person circa 33 AD....
Rather, the dignity of Dad’s death was evident in the rich prayer life he maintained until his dying breath, and the unwavering hope he possessed in “the free gift of God”: “eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (again, Rom. 6:23). When I found Dad’s Bible in his apartment...
16The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. 17They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 18And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”...