who would have guessed?

the usual news clips during Holy Week tend, in my experience to be sickeningly sentimentalist, or blandly dismissive. i don't know whether its worse to see overt weeping over the Virgin Mary's fuzzy (and european! face) in the scorch marks on a pancake, or to hear the typical remarks about how "scholars doubt the existance of _____ (fill in the blank)."

so imagine my surprise to pick up this week's newsweek magazine and find an even-handed, well-stated, and historically based reflection on the resurrection -- that was neither sentimentalist nor dismissive.

here's the link article: it's well worth reading. don't forget to see the video clip titled "mercy and forgiveness" by jon meacham. the concluding paragraph is weak, but the clip as a whole is surprisingly good. click here for newsweek article


the Lord be with you.