Scot McKnight
It’s Holy Saturday. Between Cross and the empty tomb. We wait.
CHICAGO (WLS) A Chinatown restaurant owner starts off his week with giving back to the elderly in his community. Every Monday we feed two senior buildings in Chinatown. We re not strange faces, we re regular faces. So when they see us, they get so happy, said Jackson Chiu, owner of 312 Fish Market in Chinatown.
Chiu has been feeding about 10 elderly folks in the Chinatown neighborhood for over three months. He said he makes sure the elderly community eats well. This week he cooked up unagi don tamago and California rolls.
One of the most popular and thoughtful evangelical bloggers on the web, Scot McKnight discusses theology and current events in conversation with others.
Getting Wrath Right
It’s holy week: a season of the Christian calendar matched only and then perhaps not quite by Christmastide.
It’s the week that commemorates the final and fateful week of Jesus’s historical life, focusing particularly upon Maundy Thursday (the Lord’s Supper), Good Friday (the crucifixion), Holy Saturday (the somber rest of the buried Jesus), and Easter Sunday (the resurrection).
Christmas is about Emmanuel, about the true God taking on flesh and dwelling in our midst.
Holy week is about what Christians sometimes loosely call the atonement: the saving work of Jesus focused especially upon his death, resurrection, ascension, outpoured Spirit, and perpetual heavenly session at the right hand of God the father.
Kelly Edmiston
Bread: “The food of Inaugurated Eschatology”
In this Lenten season, I am focusing on the object of bread as an image that helps us focus on divine realities. (The idea is from a book called “Lent: In Plain Sight: A Devotional Through Ten Objects,” by Jill Duffield.) Bread comes up a lot in the Bible. From the Old Testament where God provides bread in the wilderness to Jesus referring to himself as the bread of life, bread is a poignant image. One very interesting place that bread shows up is in the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-14.
We grieve the
We lament racism against Asian Americans.
ATLANTA (AP) A series of shootings over nearly an hour at three Atlanta area massage parlors left eight people dead and raised fears that the attack was yet another hate crime against people of Asian descent.
Police arrested 21-year-old Georgia man and said the motive wasn’t immediately known, though many of the victims were women of Asian descent.
The attacks began Tuesday evening, when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor in Acworth, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker said. Two people died at the scene, and three were taken to a hospital where two died, Baker said.