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My old landmarks are fading, the people who built them disappearing. That happens to all of us as we age. I have known this intuitively. But now I am experiencing it. And it is unsettling.

As I look back on my childhood, I realize how lucky I am that my parents gave my brother and me the choice. We were able to choose what we believed in and how we believed in it.

Sunday, April 17, 10 a.m. at The Salvation Army Kroc Center, 1765 W Golf Course Road, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Join The Salvation Army as we celebrate the Resurrection with special guests Salvation Army Majors Terry and Rutendo Masango. There will be refreshments following the service. Tracy SimmonsTracy Simmons is an …

If resurrection did not and does not mean physically/bodily rising from the dead, what could Paul, the Gospel writers, and the early Church have meant by that word? And what does it mean for us today?

propose that within the constellation of Easter stories, the primary event, the event that changed everything, was the crucifixion, not the commonly understood resurrection.

The naming of the celebration as “Easter” seems to go back to the name of a pre-Christian goddess in England, Eostre, who was celebrated at beginning of spring.