Bishop James W. Lewis CH

Resurrection Sunday does not have to sound like Heaven is angry and finally calming down. It sounds better than that. It sounds like love refusing to quit. It sounds like God saying that death does not get the last word, fear does not get the final sermon, and violence does not get to define truth. Many of us were taught to hear Easter mainly as a transaction. A debt paid. A punishment absorbed. A legal problem solved. But resurrection is bigger, warmer, and more beautiful than a receipt. It...

Good Friday is one of the strangest names in the Christian world. A man is betrayed. Beaten. Mocked. Stripped. Nailed to a cross. And we call it good. Jesus did not die because love failed. Jesus died because the world system could not tolerate a man who exposed its emptiness. The cross is humanity saying, “We would rather kill innocence than surrender our madness.” And Christ, even there, keeps revealing God. Not revenge. Not curses. Not tantrums from Heaven. But mercy. Forgiveness....

A Course in Miracles gives us a sharp little sword for moments we feel our victories are making our race into negative thoughts: “I can choose peace instead of this.” That line matters because memory is not neutral. The mind can make an altar out of old pain. It can kneel before what hurt it and call that wisdom. But ACIM says you still have a choice. You are not chained to every dark thought your past tries to hand you. You can choose peace instead of this. You can choose not to let one old...