The resurrection isn’t an event from the distant past, or a scientific problem to be solved, or a fact to be convinced of in a sermon. It is the continuing, transforming power of God to bring back from death all that was lost – that ever-renewing love at work changing ourselves, our relationships, our communities, and our world. It is Good News. And it’s too good not to be true.
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A lot has been made in past decades about the "conflict" between Christianity and contemporary knowledge around the origins of the universe, as if they were incompatible. Here, Van Der Zee retells the Christian story as including our knowledge around the origins of the universe, asking the question, "What if we told the story of the Bible from the perspective of what science has learned about God's world?" The result is a beautiful, sermon-like proclamation narrating the creative love of God "from Stardust to New Creation." This wonderful video shows the imaginative possibilities in embracing the biblical story as being about our universe as it is.
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