Category: Speaking to the Soul

Here’s the Top Ten “How to be Happier” list from researcher David G. Myers:

At some point Jesus’ ministry became too big for him to handle alone. The signs of stress appear often in Mark’s Gospel…

Connecting us together by breaking boundaries and expanding friendship is Christ’s work. It is joyful work of celebration.

In Christ, God creates a new community, a new world. It is a world that eschews violence, symbolized by the central image of Jesus on the cross. Jesus soaks up violence and injustice, and returns only love. He is raised into the resurrection life of God’s power exercised through love, to create a new community of generosity and equality. That is God’s gift. In the church, unlike the world, all are equal

The scripture insists that everything in heaven and earth is destined to be united “in Christ.” The whole of created reality is to be raised up and to be included “in Christ.”