April 8th 2007 Window in the Sky

Despite his proclamation that the temple would be destroyed and then rebuilt in three days, nobody really expected Jesus to come back from the dead. Likewise, nobody really gets what that must have meant to the faithful followers of the two-day-dead Jesus. Even George Romero would’ve been hard pressed to know in advance what Jesus would be like after death.

So what would he have been like? Did his experiences of after-death change him? Was he still the same Jesus? Or, is this the new Jesus?

For us, Easter is the proof within the pudding of Christian spirituality. It is the “so, there” of eight millennia of Judeo-Christian theology. It is the promise God has kept, and the promise God has made for tomorrow.