“Life is Longer than Death”
Progressive Faith Sermons - Dr. Roger Ray
English - April 09, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes - 14.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 140 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality christian ray roger affirming and christianity church community liberal open Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Walter Brueggemann posed the challenge of Easter as deciding to be “a part of the Easter movement of civil disobedience that contradicts the empire,” to “see if life is longer than death.” Each day, we face a litany of suffering born of oppression, mirroring the crucifixion, that we must match with the determination to keep going, mirroring the resurrection. In the face of injustice, we insist on creating just, joyful, equitable communities. At Easter, we repeat these stories in order to remember the choices we make between “empire death and Easter life,” to make our hells into healing, and rise again.