The 8 Days of Creation
How the Gospel of John echoes Genesis
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To recreate is a harder task than to create. The weight of that theological declaration settled on me over the past few weeks, as my nine-months-pregnant frame contorted in all manner of calisthenics while refinishing the crib in which my mother laid me when I was tiny. It was part frugality, part commitment to reusing,
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Christ is the Tabernacle and His empty tomb is the Holy of Holies
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Last week I contemplated the cycle of Death and Rebirth in Nature and how it reflects that great spiritual reality of the Resurrection. In particular I focused on how, in the Resurrection, God makes even Death itself beautiful. I’ve continued to meditate on this idea—the relationship between Christ’s defeat of Death and the cultivation of
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Should we begin teaching Augustine’s City of God with the final pages?
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The year 381 witnessed the writing of a most high and hearty poem. Squeezing cosmic scope into twenty-seven lines, it spoke of an almighty Father, of things visible and invisible, of an unending kingdom, of people awaiting the resurrection of the dead. The poets were theologians; the occasion was the Second Church Council; the poem
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