Show 15 our churches 17 Comics 19 In Missionaries New book explores first Easter Earl Arthur Batss son of Garry and Becky Bates of Weilsville has recently returned from the California Riverside LOS Mission He will speak at 9 am Sunday in the Weilsville 7th Ward 100 West 700 South Carma Bond daughter of Larry and Lois Bond of River Heights has accepted a call to serve in the Berlin Germany LOS Mission She will speak at 1 pm Sunday in the River Heights 2nd Ward 800 S 600 East David Burnett son of Floyd and Miriam Burnett of Hyrum has recently returned from the Porto Alegre North LOS Mission He will speak at 12:30 pm Sunday in the Hyrum 9th Ward 455 E 100 South NEW YORK (AP) — From its curliest days Christianity has proclaimed that Jesus rose from the grave bodily and that those who believe in him will live eternally also bodily Jonathan Lloyd Earl son of Gary and Pauline Earl of Weilsville accepted a call to the France Paris Mission He speaks at 11 am Sunday in the Weilsville 8th Ward He enters the Missionary Training Center April 7 Jacob Johnaon son of Andy and Tally Johnson of Paradise accepted a call to the Chile Vina Del mar Mission He speaks at 12:40 pm Sunday in the Paradise Ward He enters the Missionary Training Center April 7 Skeptics have always said that's impossible And while ordinary churchgoers may not know it many liberal Christian theologians belies e Jesus lived on after death as a spiritual hut not physical presence In the anthology “The Resurrection" (Oxford University Press Jeremy Larsen son of Craig and Cindy Larsen of Logan recently returned from the Mexico Monterey North Mission He speaks at 9 am Sunday in the Logan 22nd Ward 1295 N 800 East Jeremy D Maughan son of Darwin and Debbie Maughan of Hyrum has recently returned from the Texas Fort Worth Spanish LDS Mission He will speak at 12:50 pm Sunday in the Hyrum North Stake Center 245 Apple Drive Scripps Howard photo They may not look like much but Christian Science reading rooms like this one in Perrysburg quiet place to access and study Scripture and other spiritual readings Douglas Mac ham son of Steven and Darlene Meehan of Nibley recently accepted a call to the Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission He speaks at 12:30 pm Sunday in the Nibley 2nd Ward 360 W 3200 South He enters the Missionary Train- Ohio offer the public Trevor B Nyman son of Kent and Carol Nyman of Providence accepted a call to the South Africa Capetown Mission He speaks 3:20 pm Sunday in the Providence 3rd Ward 309 S Main He enters the Missionary Training Center April 7 Christian Science reading rooms fill an important spiritual niche for example was in the reading Health” is such a priority that there is no preaching in the church's Sunroom last Saturday afternoon lookday services ing up references to the phrase The Bible and “face to face" from storefront next cheery “Science and the Baskin-Robbia lesson on a Bible Health” are concream store in story about Jacob sidered the only Ohio often is Using the reading 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emphasis on Mrs Stocking's husband Chuck recent years the Bible and “Science and By Judy Tarjanyi Toledo Blade Suzette Petersen daughter of Larry and Glee Petersen of Richmond accepted a call to the Washington DC South Mission She speaks at 10:50 am Sunday in the Richmond 2nd Ward 150 S 100 East She enters the Missionary The Training Center April 7 Scott Taylor son of Paul and Patty Taylor of Mendon has accepted a cal to serve in the Czech Prague LDS Mission He will speak at 11:30 am Sunday in the Mendon 1st Ward 20 N 100 West He enters the Missionary Training Center on April 7 ns Act locally m Andy Watts son of Kim and Anita Watts of Logan accepted a call to the Philippines Oton-gap- o Mission He speaks at 9 am Sunday in the Logan 28th Ward 1450 E 1500 North He enters the Missionary Training Center April 7 Rollgion report Passover Seder Next Wednesday evening Logan's Jewish Community will gather to celebrate Passover The community Seder is open to everyone adults and children alike and will be held Wednesday at 6:30 pm at the Bear River House 78 W 1000 North Please RSVP Sue (753-096by Tuesday as pot luck dishes andor minimal payment will be coordinated This celebration commemorates the liberation of the Jewish people from the Egyptian pharaoh’s tyranny some 3000 years ago According to the tradition Moses’ well-knoplea to the pharaoh “Let my people go” was not heeded In response God sent horrific plagues to the pharaoh’s land including the slaying n of the The Jews marked their doors with lamb’s blood so the Angel of Death would pass over them The Seder also commemorates liberation and incorporates song and joyous celebration 2) first-bor- Sunrise service set The Utah Stale University Christian Campus Organization FOCUS and four local churches — Cache Valley Bible Cache Valley Christian Center Full Gospel Fellowship and Maranatha Baptist — are sponsoring a sunrise service in the USU campus at 8 am Easter Sunday (April 4) in the amphitheater near Old Main Each congregation and FOCUS will contribute leadership to the hour-lon- g service There will be scripture reading special music choruses and hymns Danny Royer pastor of Cache Valley Christian Center will bring a brief Resurrection message The public is invited Dances of Peace The Dances of Universal Peace simple movements to chants and lyrics from the world’s great spiritual traditions will be offered from 7 to 9 pm Sunday in the pink room of the Whittier Center in Logan All ages are welcome and no dance experience is necessary This will be the first dance for a dance circle now forming Logan-base- d under the leadership of Ginny Martincz-McKe- e a dance leader working toward certification Martinez-McKc-c a former Cache Valley resident recently returned to Cache Vullcy after living in California where she learned the dunces and started training as a dance leader 5-- 1-- 266-979- 7 K‘ most striking of the 18 papers come from three philosophy professors: William P Alston of Syracuse University Stephen T Davis of Claremont McKenna College and Richard Swinburne of Oxford University Alston confronts liberal theologizing as typified by the Rev Reginald Fuller professor emeritus at Virginia Theological Seminary Fuller an Episcopalian has written that Jesus' Ulster restoration was not us a visible bodily being He thinks the “materializing" of the risen Christ was something Christians developed later In his rebuttal Alston who is no fundamentalist grants some New Testament material could have been made up later And he acknowledges there are contradictions in the accounts of the empty tomb and the appearances of the risen Christ particularly regarding time and place But he concludes it's reasonable to believe there were bodily apiearances of Jesus of the general sort the four Gospels report To him arguments like Fuller's are speculative and produce conclusions that are “arbitrary in the extreme” A typical Fuller argument: Paul's writings mention no Easter appearances Alston objects saying we don't have everything Paul wrote Why assume that the surviving epistles covered everything important? Liberal critics typically apply a “dissimilarity” principle saying a Gospel report is most trustworthy when it differs from the viewpoint of ancient Judaism and the early church Alston thinks that's like future historians rejecting the authenticity of any statements of Martin Luther King that agreed with the civil rights movement before and after he died Davis' essay asks: Did the original witnesses to the risen Christ sec his body as a material object through normal eyesight or did they have a subjective vision with no body present? Rejecting the subjective approach Davis notes that Jesus was not seen just by people who believed lie had risen Doubting Thomas is a famous example Millennial fever aside it pays to prepare By Kenneth W Godfrey There is I am told a serious worldwide outhreuk of millennial fever as we all prepare for the year 2000 Already zealous Christian folk have been arrested in Jerusalem accused of making plans some of which are dangerously close to the edge of violence that will trigger events thought to hasten the Messiah's return Some people are storing food and water and other basic necessities while they watch the signs of the times so as to not be unprepared when Christ suddenly comes like a thief in the night Many people have caught the millennial bug No one is really to blame for this huge surge of expectation it is the calendar's fault In the February 1999 issue of the Smithsonian David Duncan's fine article tilled “Calendar” explains just how the units of time we hold so dear “were all made up” Actually we can divide the blame or the praise on Easter Dennis tlic Lillie and Pope John I In 525 AD Duncan informs us John I asked Dennis a “humorless stodgy" cleric-scholto calculate “the dates on which all future Easters should be celebrated” Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon alter the spring equinox ar CECommon Eraj and BCEBeforc Therefore Dennis had to “dutifully study the positions of the Common Era In spite of Dennis the Little's impeccable academic credentials we know now that while he thought he had moon and the sun" and create pinned down the date of Christ’s birth he was slightly inaccurate Modern a of chart scholars now lean to 5 or 6 BC as the upcoming Easttrue date of Jesus’s birth ers beginning The calendar too is always just a bit in 532 off and has to be tinkered with from However in time to time In 1582 for example Pope 532 there was no 532 instead accord y rift" ing to the Roman calendar the year was Gregory XIII to “repair a 1285 The Roman calendar began with cut ten days from the month of October the reign of the emperor Diocletion in People went to bed on Thursday the 4th the year 248 Dennis the Little might and woke up on Friday the 15th This have been a “humorless stodgy cleric” act left bankers wondering how to calbut he was devout As he got into his culate interest workers fussing over lost work he came to believe it improper for wages and some folks so angry they Christians to use “a time line glorifying actually rioted If Duncan is correct then this last a notorious persecutor of Christians” millennium actually ended four or five After running his idea by the pope Dennis decided to calculate all dates years ago and we all even the most based on the birthday of Christ Duncan overzealous missed it Therefore those of you who still want to store food and Dennis as saying that he Jiuotes to count and denote the years other necessities so as to be ready for from the incarnation of our Lord in the great calamities that the year 2000 order to make the foundation of our surely has in store come over to my hope better known" Thus we came to house and I will give you mine but only AD and BC if you promise to share if bad things have the well-use- d in deference to the really do happen and the great battle of scholars today Many in the world millions of Armageddon starts up It appears I have more than enough to have replaced AD and BC with ten-da- ns worry about now that old age has grasped nie and I cannot seem to Find the release button on my worrier When it is cold I worry about the furnace not functioning the water pipes freezing and me experiencing frostbite When it's hot I am certain the air conditioner will break the Logan River will run dry and the sun will cause my skin to become cancerous Managed care HMO's and the bankruptcy of Social Security add pages to my worry chart Just when I thought I would have something exciting to watch during the winter of 2002 rumors abounded that someone would take the Olympics away from Salt Lake City With all I have to worry about I just do not have time to prepare for Gog and Magog Armageddon bloody moons movement in the Wasatch fault e worrying about securing more Y c t food than I cun eat today there linger still in my conditioned air the words of Christ: “Behold I come quickly like a thief in the night" Perhaps you had better get your own supply of necessities I have decided not to give mine away just yet Kenneth the Little hath spoken Kannath W Godfrey la a religious historian ing In Logan Features: Friday Outdoors: National Elk Refuge r- several Catholic archdiuccsan seminary The Making room to read ing Center April 14 copy! -i a l philosophers at secular universities apply tools of modem logical analysis to support belief in Christ's bodily resurrection Those who want to rethink Easter in depth will find they write refreshingly clear prose as philosophers go The anthology stems from a 1996 “Resurrection Summit" at the New York V V 752-212- 1 liv- |