Book 7, Ep. 5 | Resurrection with Matt Potts
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The Importance of Standing Up for Justice and Mercy
If we think we see Jesus someplace, that's dangerous. Because then you're like displacing what should be your commitment to working on behalf of justice and mercy ... which is not the thing. So for him, resurrection is like first ending of Gospel Mark, empty tomb terror because the world is falling apart around us. We have to step into that space and do something about it. And so resurrection becomes something more like this new life that steps into the place of absence and pain and mourning and grief that has been left in order to try to create the conditions for justice and mercy and love in the lives that we could begin.
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