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Compelled Chapel: 'Death's Dark Shadows' and Resurrection Hope

Melissa Johnson

    • Monday, December 9, 2024
    • 9:30–10:20 a.m. Pacific
  • Ethel Lee Auditorium (Sutherland)
  • Hosted By: Spiritual Development
  • Open to: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Parents, Staff, Students

Cost and Admission

This event is free to attend.


The Scriptures here teach us that Christ’s victory over death, the last enemy, will culminate in glorious, raised-from-the dead, resurrection life. My talk will consider how that vision can help us to truly acknowledge death’s darkness and to sharpen our hope. I will also consider some of our cultural practices that get in the way of us seeing this vision clearly, especially as it pertains to the care of the dead & dying.

Speakers

Melissa Johnson

When Melissa Schubert was in sixth grade, her grandpa, because he was retiring from the pastorate and because he loved her, let her plunder his book-filled study. Loving books, words, and ideas has been core to her love of God and others ever since. 

Her academic specialization is Renaissance English poetry, which persuades her that the world is infinitely interesting and that good words enrich the Christian life. She finds regular confirmation that this is so, whether in her garden or on her bike, with her church or beside her nieces and nephews, who, along with her students and colleagues, help her pursue language and imagination keen enough to unfold this terrestrial life and strong enough to hope for the life of the world to come.


Questions?

Contact:
(562) 903-4874
chapel@biola.edu



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