The Yoke That Frees
How can the desire to be resurrected--to be delivered from hardness of heart--be fulfilled short of joining a monastery?

Jesus gives us the answer. "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and gentle in heart and you will find rest for your souls."

The Sanskrit word for yoke is yuga and literally means 'that which joins.'

Jesus names what we cannot name. "Come to me," he says. "Get into the yoke with me. Be joined to me.

Walk alongside me, in tandem, and you will find the fulfillment your soul is looking for."

We need only two things to be resurrected: the desire that is yet unmet in our hearts, and the willingness to risk going to Jesus to fulfill that desire.

by Renée Miller
from "Jesus Is Here, Resurrecting the Cracked and Hardened Heart"

So what, if anything, might it matter to Jews if the recently discovered Gospel of Judas reports a different account of the one who allegedly betrayed Jesus?

Isn't this really just something of interest to biblical scholars and curious Christians? ...

by Caren Goldman
from "Can the Gospel of Judas Say Anything to Jews?"

Thirty-eight years ago this month, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. An eyewitness tells us what that day has meant to him.

For many, many years, I must tell you, I wondered why was I there?

Of all the places I could have been, of all the places he could have been, all the things we could have been involved in, why was I there at that moment in history?

And God revealed it to me over the years. I was there to be a witness, and my witness has to be true. ...

by The Rev. Dr. Billy Kyles
from "On the Balcony with Dr. King"