Spreading the news

After Like 24:1-12

 

Stunned. Overwhelmed.

The three women were

the first to hear the news.

Then they remembered

his words, but was he

really serious? He would

rise on the third day?

They hurried to tell

the others, the eleven and

the rest, with a not

entirely unexpected 

response: skepticism, 

doubts, perhaps a trace

of ridicule, surly this was

idle talk and speculative

rumor. A story, in other

words, a tale, and it was

somewhat cruel of them

to repeat it. But the one

called the rock listened;

something struck him

as true, and he raced

to the tomb, finding it

just as the women had

said. It was empty.

He was gone.

 

Photograph by Logan Weaver via Unsplash. Used with permission. 

Some Sunday Readings

 

Reading as Rebellion – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.

Christianity in China – Ndrew Wilson at Tabletalk.

Field of Bounty and of Grief – Steven Searcy at Mere Orthodoxy. Related: Four Poems from The Locust Years by Paul Pastor – Rabbit Room Poetry.

“On Shakespeare. 1630,” poem by John Milton – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally” Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem – Elaine Wang at Literary Hub.

How the West Lost Its Soul – Paul Kingsnorth at The Free Press.