Resurrection, not resuscitation

As Christians, we are supposed to believe that the impossible is possible, that life springs from death. Central to that commitment is comfort with letting old things die. If it doesn’t die, then we’re really just practicing rehabilitation, or worse, resuscitation. As the church comes out of COVID, as my campus comes out of COVID, I’ve found myself tempted to scrape back the missing pieces of my life as it was before, to resuscitate my...