This Sunday, Christians proclaim their belief in the risen Christ. But, as an Anglican priest-theologian explains, unless we undergo a difficult and painful process of transformation in our own lives, we will not experience the gift that Easter promises
For years, I struggled with a guilty conscience about the last line of the Creed; for years, I struggled as I tried to make sure my life would never fall apart. These two struggles turned out to be related. It wasn’t until my life did fall apart that I truly began to “look for the resurrection of the dead”, and to experience for myself the gift of life on the other side of death.We sometimes talk of resurrection as merely an elaborate metaphor for coming through a difficult time. It is more than that. My crisis was such
01 April 2015, The Tablet
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