And perhaps we see it, too: the Son of Man on the clouds in Daniel overlaid over top of this Jesus as though traced on onionskin paper, the divine king like a ghost over the suffering servant.
Tag: america
sermon: “if you want it”
Death is over—if we want it. Jesus is Lord even of death and has pulled its stinger out. An absurd claim then as now, yet every one of Jesus’ disciples, the first ones Mary Magdalene told, died for it. Because it was true, and because there was power in it.
on truth
A core American value, a secondary but important supporting piece of the mythos, is that telling the truth in the face of consequences is valuable and efficacious.