A Reflection on Easter: Beyond Chocolate and New Bedding to the True Gospel - Nadia Bolz-Weber - God's Politics Blog:
Extract:
"But this all has very little to do with the actual gospel story because the gospel story is not fancy; it’s downright messy. See, Easter in the Bible may be the greatest story ever told. It’s just not the story we usually choose to tell, because its not a story about new dresses and baskets and flowers and candy and spiffyness. Really, it’s a story about flesh and dirt and bodies and confusion, and its about the way God never seems to adhere to our expectations.
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This is an excellent article that makes you think about the image of today's Easter compared with what the real Jesus and the first Easter was actually like. The real Easter was dirty and messy, not spiffed up and shiny new. And the real Jesus hung around with sinners, not people in their best-dressed Easter outfits.
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