In Louisiana, a woman lies buried beneath a grove of 150-year-old oak trees in the cemetery of an Episcopal Church. Only one word is carved on her tombstone: “Waiting.”
This person who died may be waiting for the resurrection of the dead, but the Sadducees who raised this question in the conversation with Jesus certainly did not believe in the resurrection. They were only trying to use a trick qu...
Human beings have a hard time imagining anything outside of our realm of experience. Not only that but in our current culture, respect for authority has dwindled. Mistrust abounds not only of each other but of anything that smacks of authority or even more so of the unknown.
We live day to day a comfortable and comforting existence in which we can be sure of certain things. Or can we?
Take this ...
Have any of you visiting alumni ever had a dream in which you dreamed that you were back here in school at Duke during an exam? It's a fairly typical alumni dream. The dream often involves some problem you have with the exam. You have studied all night for the final in organic chemistry. But now, on the morning of the exam, you find that the classroom door is locked by Dr. Wilder. You pound on the...
