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April 14, 2024

You got anything to eat?

I’m not sure the resurrection appearances of Jesus are all that helpful. It’s not that they’re unimportant; on the contrary, they’re central to Christian faith. But sometimes they pull us into such a rarefied frame of mind that we risk losing touch with what the resurrection is about. The mythical giant Antaeus was invincible as Continue reading

Ruminations

Antaeus, doubt, greatest hope, greatest need, Hercules, Jesus, most urgent question, resurrection appearances, resurrrection, the risen Christ
April 7, 2024

A Letter to Thomas

For several years, for the Sunday after Easter Day, I’ve written a letter to the disciple Thomas. Some of them I’ve made public. This is one of them. Dear Thomas — For more than forty years I’ve been trying to say something intelligible about the Resurrection, and while I always start with the risen Christ, Continue reading

Ruminations

courage, death, death and resurrection, disbelief, doubt, doubting Thomas, faith, faith and doubt, faith without doubt, faith without question, grief, John’s gospel, Nadia Bolz-Weber, resurrection, Saint Paul, skepticism, un-resurrected world

About Me

Rich Neal is, in no particular order, a wordsmith and graphic designer; lover of typography, books, and publishing; photographer; contemplative; saunterer; and a retired and still-active pastor. He claims neither special wisdom nor particularly deep insight into life, only occasional glimpses of what lies behind the veil along the way. He shares them here in the hope of connecting the pieces of life’s puzzle that come to him in the journey and would consider it a gift if sharing them also connected him with others who travel an unmarked path toward the same unknown end.

doubt

You got anything to eat?

A Letter to Thomas