UBC Wed For Life

                                    Today is Easter. Along with Christmas, it is one of the two holidays where Jesus has a central focus. The holiday focuses on Jesus’ death and resurrection, which are the steps he took to ensure salvation for every person that believes in him. It’s a very important day of commemoration for believers. One thing that makes Jesus so interesting is that despite being God, he’s not some abstract being that humans can’t perceive. He is a deity in human form, and as such, he had real human features. Features that have been the cause of some controversy over the centuries. We all have seen the most common depiction of Jesus (i.e., the left side of the image at the top of this entry). Images like that were accepted as being true and accurate representations of Jesus for hundreds of years. Many people now understand that “White Jesus” is not really what he looked lik...

                    Our world is currently in turmoil. With everything that has been going on the past few years, that statement almost goes without saying. In the past couple of months, more fuel has been thrown onto the fire with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since the start of that war, we’ve been fed a steady diet of the horrors that accompany war. We’ve seen people displaced from their homes, families killed, and once peaceful towns and cities ravaged by destruction. After bearing witness to the travesties in Ukraine, many of us are left wondering “why?” Is the fighting and violence necessary? What purpose does any of the misery serve? It’s doubtful that any response we receive to those questions would be considered good because, to many of us, war and violence on this level serve no good purpose. It’s easy to be swept up by these most current events and feel like there is something new or unique about this latest confli...