"It will be a task of our generation, not to 'seek great things,' but to save and preserve our souls out of chaos, and to realize that it is the only thing we can cary as a 'prize' from the burning building." —Bonhoeffer

"It is time that the stone grew accustomed to blooming, / That unrest formed a heart." — Paul Celan That's resurrection time; that's what we celebrate tomorrow.

Passing through death — and harrowing every hell — Christ takes us into resurrection life. If that is not a reason to celebrate, I don’t know what is!

This aired on Good Friday, but from a Christian perspective, it is about both a Good Friday and Easter — and also about the Holy Saturday youtu.be/Ohv8KAiBjLs

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"If you want to know where the world is headed, the best indicator is how the most transformative technology of our time [AI] will be manifested across different political-cultural systems rooted in divergent civilizational foundations." — Zawada

Two prominent 19th century black ministers, James Pennington and Alexander Crummell, studied theology at Yale. Because they were Black the university did not allow them to register formally for classes or matriculate for a degree. Now Yale gave them a honorary M.A.

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Let's live for what matters most.

I am looking forward to our ICS and Regis College conversation with Miroslav Volf tomorrow. Join us online or on site! RSVP to: [email protected]

Looking forward to this conversation.

"Resurrection to eternal life is my hope in life and in death. Eternal life is a lived life. It is life in God's new creation. Death is thus like a birthday to new life in the kingdom of God. That gives me new courage for life every morning of every new day." —Moltmann, at 97

"If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot." —Kurt Cobain. That seems to me just about right, though I wouldn't have put it as gruffly as the king of grunge.

This evening, 6-9pm ET, I will take part in a conversation about "Good" at MoMA. Other conversation partners are Marcia Day Childress, Agustín Fuentes, Erica Caple James, Ani Liu, Neela Saldanha. You can watch the event: youtube.com/live/W5Hyw4QcK…

German translation of Life Worth Living is now out. A photo from the book stand at a conference in Fribourg University. Sold out at the venue, though (which is both good and bad).

I have really enjoyed this conversation. Simon Sinek Maria Shriver

I am so thankful that there is a Spanish translation of this book of mine. Much thangs to Editorial CLIE

NEW VIDEO: Our annual Faith Angle Europe conference convenes an exceptional round-up of participating journalists & religion scholars, incl. here Tim Alberta Miroslav Volf Mara Gay Emma Tucker Katrin Bennhold Carl Cannon Tunku Varadarajan Thomas Chatterton Williams & others: youtu.be/vV8gLwRSty4

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Life Worth Living class at Wabash. (It has students as well, not just books!)