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This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail. So much attention is given to Lent, yet the theology of resurrection is central not only to what we believe about God and Jesus but to our understanding of ourselves. Following the pattern of her Advent book, The Meaning Is in the Waiting, Paula Gooder leads us on a...

as Christ did and acting in the world like Christ. In Paul’s view we cannot be ‘in Christ’ and still be the same people we were before. Everything about who we are, what we think and what we do is now infected with Christ and, as a result, our lives should be entirely transformed. Thus, the way in which we do the school run, go to work, chat with our friends and so on will be infected with ‘Christ-likeness’, marked by love, by lack of concern about status, by putting others before ourselves, by breathing
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