The Light on the Water
It came back to me then, a certainty that I'd lost for a while...that I thought I might have lost for good, in fact:

the certainty of God's ultimate victory over all the forces that divide us from love.

I'd gotten sadly cynical about love of late;

I'd seen it bash itself like this water against the rocks, making no apparent difference, retreating in what looked like defeat, into the silence of a death.

I'd seen how spirituality can become a way of evading one's own real issues, how Godwardness can actually be a full-out flight from painful realities.

And I'd retreated myself into the silence of...not unbelief or disbelief, but belief suspended in the chaos and pain.

I had found myself retreating into a silence devoid of any whisper of God.

Yet here was the light on the water, no longer moving, still not reachable, but there.

Just for a moment, I knew that, however little it looked that way to me, I too was standing in the same light.

Just for a moment, I knew that while I felt like a darkness absorbing the light, to God I was water reflecting it in glory.

by Molly Wolf
"The Light on the Water"
from Living Easter: A Road to the Sacred

Misquoting Jesus:
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
by Bart D. Ehrman

The readers most likely to be shocked by this book are biblical fundamentalists, but they are also the least likely to read it.

So how did this book land on the best-seller list?

Based on the runaway popularity of The Da Vinci Code, there's no shortage of readers looking for a good conspiracy, ...

Review by Mitch Finley
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The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture
by N.T. Wright

Wright appeals to the reader to take another look at the Bible,

not as an isolated phenomenon--a veritable rule book similarly applicable at all times and in all places

--but rather as a book better placed within both the contemporary cultural context and as part of a larger tradition of interpretation. ...

Review by Jeffrey Needle
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We know that death and sorrow stand nearby--whether it be physical death, the loss of a job, the loss of a relationship, the loss of a dream--but resurrection also waits to be noticed at the edges of our life.

We have all known the wonder of a healing, a new job, a new love, a new dream being born out of the agony of hopelessness.

Making Easter a way of life means that we are unwilling to settle for death in any of its forms. We are unwilling to give up hope and belief that new life is always being offered to us by heaven. ...

Making Easter a way of life means that we turn our eyes toward resurrection each and every day, searching for its signs, believing in its truth, living into its glory.

from "Living Easter"
the intro to "A Thought a Day for the 50 Days of Easter"