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God. We are a sad and fearful people. Not all of us, of course. Some of us some of the time are happy and confident. And we don’t want to be fearful. But all of us know that we will face pain and will face death. And it shapes our thinking. Sometimes we work hard […]

Somewhere out there, under there, is the wreckage of a ship that some people have been thinking about this week. 50 years ago, off Whitefish Point, a ship broke apart, sank, and 29 people died. Seventy-four years ago, or so, my dad was in the Army in Korea. Those who remembered veterans this week, those […]

When Jesus talks to the Sadducees about the afterlife, he’s not doing pastoral care. He’s not offering comfort, he’s not teaching us what we should say to grieving people. He’s outlining truth in a way that will silence a particular group that was attacking him. The Sadducees, the people who asked the question, aren’t identified […]

Rich Dixon is serious about kids. +++ Sometimes I wonder if we take Jesus seriously. I recently ran across a quote from C. S. Lewis: Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. Surprising, perhaps, from a man whose penetrating analysis of Christianity is still studied and quoted […]

One day, some people who were Sadducees came to Jesus with story problem. “Teacher,” they said. “We want to understand how to apply something that Moses taught.” According to an interpretation of the law Moses handed down from God, if a man and woman were married and he died without any children, the man’s brother […]