from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when [Aslan] began to tear the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I've ever felt.

from Traveling, a blog by my colleague Bethany Ferguson

John Updike says, “Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body. if the cells dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall.” Resurrection is as much physicality as it is theology. Belief in the resurrection doesn’t just change how I understand the world, it also impacts how I interact with it, especially with the things that are broken. Even as it seems that things are falling apart, I work by faith for reversal, reknitting, rekindling, resurrection, and look to the One who has promised He is making everything new.