Feast of Doubters
Often today’s religious culture belief has become synonymous with intellectual assent. You either believe something to be a series of facts, or you disbelieve it as such. Or perhaps, belief is described as something that stands in opposition to intellect. You believe despite your intellect.
But I don’t think that this is the belief Christ is trying to give us.
Around Easter, our church lessons tend to focus on what actually happened to Jesus in all this business of resurrection — where did Jesus go? We want to know. We obsess our narrative around proving the story, believing the disciples and subsequent sequence of events as recorded in the Gospels.
But more than this, what does Resurrection mean for us now? How do we understand this story not just as a narrative of events that occurred in the distant past, but as a calling into daily life? And especially, as in the story of Jesus appearing to Thomas, what does it mean to doubt and to believe?
Easter Doubts
If you struggle with understanding the Resurrection as historical narrative, if you aren’t sure that you can be part of the “club” because you have doubts, or after years of participation your beliefs, or your beliefs about your beliefs, have begun to unhinge you rather than complete you, unsure if the ancient story still bears meaning, allow me to…
