Episode 58: The Risk of a New Life: How to Practice Present-Tense Resurrection with Katherine Wolf (solo episode)

This week, Katherine is sharing why Resurrection Day has never meant more to her than it does now.

For most of us, “resurrection” means the one-time-only, past-tense miracle that proved Jesus was who he said he was. It was an experience specific to him.

But after surviving a catastrophic stroke, Katherine realized she really needed resurrection to apply to her. In a slow-motion miracle of her own, she experienced victory over death. It’s looked less like a rolled-away stone and more like being rolled away in a wheelchair. But even so, resurrection became personal and present-tense.

So what has she learned? Jesus’ resurrection wasn’t a one-time event. It was actually a first-time event that sparked a chain-reaction of resurrection through the rest of time. He set the staggered but certain rhythm of disappointment then delight, hard then good, wounding then healing, death then new life.

This week on The Good/Hard Story Podcast, we’re unpacking what resurrection has looked like in Katherine’s day-to-day and how you might experience it in your own way. And if now is NOT the time for new beginnings in your life, she has a word for you too.

Treasures in the Dark: 90 Reflections on Finding Bright Hope Hidden in the Hurting by Katherine Wolf: https://hopeheals.com/treasures

“Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” from The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry

Mend Coffee & Goods: https://www.mendcoffee.org/

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

A Grace Disguised by Dr. Jerry Sittser

Joni by Joni Eareckson Tada

Hope Heals by Katherine and Jay Wolf: https://hopeheals.shop/collections/books-resources/products/hope-heals-signed-personalized

“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.” - N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope

Scriptures Referenced:

John 11:25

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