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• Easter sunrise.
• I'm considering changing the approach to comments on this blog.
• "There were a number of prominent theologians during the years that I was going through the seminary who watered down the Resurrection, arguing that it was a symbol..."
• At the Saturday Night Café...
• "The liminal state of this song is punctuated by lulls of drones humming and possible ecstatic highs, but even as fractured and wild as it might all be..."
• Are you waiting for the basketball game to start and enduring Miley Cyrus?
• The intensely grand parade of mummies.

Easter sunrise. Posted: 04 Apr 2021 07:16 AM PDT

I'm considering changing the approach to comments on this blog. Posted: 04 Apr 2021 05:15 AM PDT I'd appreciate it if all readers would participate in this poll, whether you comment regularly, occasionally, or not at all.  The best approach to comments would be... Keep it the way it is. No comments, but readers can email, and Althouse may update the post to quote email. Comments must go through moderation, but nearly everything is published. Comments must go through moderation, and Althouse selects the most readable for publication. Something else, which I will describe in the comments or email Althouse about.   pollcode.com free polls

"There were a number of prominent theologians during the years that I was going through the seminary who watered down the Resurrection, arguing that it was a symbol..." Posted: 04 Apr 2021 03:49 AM PDT "... for the conviction that the cause of Jesus goes on, or a metaphor for the fact that his followers, even after his horrific death, felt forgiven by their Lord. But this is utterly incommensurate with the sheer excitement on display in the Resurrection narratives and in the preaching of the first Christians. Can one really imagine St. Paul tearing into Corinth and breathlessly proclaiming that the righteous cause of a crucified criminal endures? Can one credibly hold that the apostles of Jesus went careering around the Mediterranean and to their deaths with the message that they felt forgiven? Another strategy of domestication, employed by thinkers from the 19th century to today, is to reduce the Resurrection of Jesus to a myth or an archetype. There are numberless stories of dying and rising gods in the mythologies of the world, and the narrative of Jesus' death and resurrection can look like just one more iteration of the pattern. Like those of Dionysus, Osiris, Adonis and Persephone, the 'resurrection' of Jesus is, on this reading, a symbolic evocation of the cycle of nature. In a Jungian psychological framework, the story of Jesus dying and coming back to life is an instance of the classic hero's journey from order through chaos to greater order.... Declaring a man's sins forgiven, referring to himself as greater than the Temple, claiming lordship over the Sabbath and authority over the Torah, insisting that his followers love him more than their mothers and fathers, more than their very lives, Jesus assumed a divine prerogative. And it was precisely this apparently blasphemous pretension that led so many of his contemporaries to oppose him. After his awful death on an instrument of torture, even his closest followers became convinced that he must have been delusional and misguided. But when his band of Apostles saw him alive again after his death, they came to believe that he is who he said he was...." From "Recovering the Strangeness of Easter/For Christians, the holiday is about recapturing the surprise and excitement that the Resurrection brought to Jesus' first followers" by Bishop Robert Barron (Wall Street Journal).

At the Saturday Night Café... Posted: 03 Apr 2021 06:26 PM PDT ... you can talk about whatever you want.

"The liminal state of this song is punctuated by lulls of drones humming and possible ecstatic highs, but even as fractured and wild as it might all be..." Posted: 03 Apr 2021 06:23 PM PDT "... the power of getting through this speck of time is in your hands. While maybe you can't directly relate to Chapman's urgent promises about breaking the cycle of poverty and disappointment, you can loosely use O'Rourke's scientific process for getting through any situation rife with angst, murk and the blah of it all. Listen hard enough, and the nearly sitcom-length middle can even feel short when the same big, bending sounds are crammed into little pockets of time that flitter away before you know it." From "Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' is a beautiful ballad. This 33-minute cover version takes it to a whole new place" by Hau Chu (WaPo).

Are you waiting for the basketball game to start and enduring Miley Cyrus? Posted: 03 Apr 2021 05:05 PM PDT Miley Cyrus singing We Will Rock You at the #FinalFour #MarchMadness MILEY CYRUS FINAL FOUR pic.twitter.com/pA6PfMnydz — Miley Cyrus Edition (@MileyEdition) April 3, 2021

The intensely grand parade of mummies. Posted: 03 Apr 2021 03:49 PM PDT   "The lavish, multimillion-dollar spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the peach-coloured, neo-classical Egyptian Museum to their new resting place 5km (three miles) away. With tight security arrangements befitting their royal blood and status as national treasures, the mummies were relocated to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation in what is called The Pharaohs' Golden Parade. They were transported with great fanfare in chronological order of their reigns - from the 17th Dynasty ruler, Seqenenre Taa II, to Ramses IX, who reigned in the 12th Century BC."  BBC reports.

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