The Easter Bunny Has Cooties: How Do We Navigate the Tension of Grief and Hope? (It's Been Done Before)
Season 2, Episode 236, Apr 16, 2020, 10:12 AM
The Easter bunny has cooties! How do we hold hope of new life, while living in the middle of a moment when disease leads to death, uncertainty, and fear?
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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:
04:02 Would our culture be better and healthier, if more of it were formed by Christian or other religious worldviews?
05:22 How odd is it to be proclaiming new life, in the midst of pandemic? How odd is it to see signs of spring, in the midst of pandemic? Or does our current time actually reveal how things really are, and we are used to being able to look away? Isn’t the tension between hope and grief where we always live?
08:01 Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, and a good part of our country mourned his loss on Easter Sunday. How does remembering this help us today?
13:28 Severe difficulty. Isn’t that what is authentic to human life? How does the story of the samurai sword illuminate what is human, and transformative?
17:03 How are we in this together, and how are we in this separately?