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Easter Egg Hunt

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 17, 2017 Dig deeper

Easter 2013

Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant Mar 30, 2013 Dig deeper

News Flash: Obama, Clinton Claim Christian Faith

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2008 There's been plenty of innuendo and chatter about Barack Obama's religious affiliation and beliefs lately, but both Obama and rival Hillary Clinton have described their faith with little room for extrapolation in recent months. Here's what they had to say. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

You Mean Jesus Didn’t Have a Bodily Resurrection?

The Rev. Madison Shockley / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 Interested in a real Paschal Mystery this Easter? How 'bout this? Why does the Catholic Church insist that Jesus had a bodily resurrection, when Paul clearly says in Corinthians 15:44: "It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Belief & Religion

Easter: The Resurrection (with Questions)

The Rev. Madison Shockley / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 Hallelujah! Easter is almost here. Aren't you glad? What's that low sigh I hear? Ohhhhh that's right, you're one of those progressive Christians. Easter is probably the most conflicted time of the year among progressive churches, even more so than Christmas. Even a progressive Christian can reasonably assert that Jesus was really born, even as the debate goes on among others about how he was born. But this is not so with Easter. Either he was resurrected or he was not. And when we say he was not, then someone somewhere will quote I Corinthians 15:12 to us, "Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?" Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )