The Best Picture of the Resurrection is the Cross

reflections on what we mean when we say "Christ is risen"

This is the day which the Lord has made.

Ps. 118:24

To claim that Jesus was raised from the dead is to say something far stranger than we’ve been led to believe—and infinitely more promising. As Robert Jenson reminds us, whatever happened to Jesus, it was not a “coming back to life” and not the next thing that happened after he died and was buried. Jesus…