
Speaking to the Soul: Can These Bones Live?
“Can these bones live?” asks God. Ezekiel says, “you know, O Lord God.”

“Can these bones live?” asks God. Ezekiel says, “you know, O Lord God.”

Ten years ago today, the name Episcopal Café was launched onto the internet and into the world…. So, thank you for ten years of online community; and here’s to the next ten years!

How can alleluia and doubt exist side-by-side?

by Kimberly Knowle-Zeller Christ is risen! Alleluia! Can you hear the shouts? Can you feel the joy? The screams of excitement and shock?

I, perhaps, identify best with Schrödinger’s cat, simultaneously both arrived and not, until the box is opened. Until the stone is rolled away. Until the gates of hell are burst. How do you enter into the joy of the resurrection?

But, something funny happened at the tomb…

Holy Saturday is a day of waiting. It’s a day to spend some time contemplating and praying and most of all watching with those who are suffering, whether physically, mentally, spiritually, or emotionally.

You know I’m not a literalist, but I guess I’m not sure how to solve that one. I only know not to call Jewish folks “Jews” myself in conversation. I am not sure how to fix the Bible.”

There is a creativity and love at the center of existence that transforms brokenness. It reaches through and beyond suffering. It even vanquishes death.

In a world that doesn’t make sense, the only response is a life that doesn’t make sense either.