I have very close friends and relatives who battle with anxiety, worry and dread. Each of these people are well educated and wonderfully intelligent. They know the basis of what they experience is fear. Intellectually, they know the fear is likely to be perceived fear, in contrast to genuine fear. However, for all of …

The Advent of Easter, Part XXIV by Pamela Christian—Copyright © 2019 Note: Sequence of events are imagined as extracted from the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’ resurrection. The day after the Sabbath, before dawn on the first day of the week (Sunday), Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome, brought spices to …

The Advent of Easter, Part XXIII by Pamela Christian—Copyright © 2019 This post represents the events leading up to and just after Jesus’ battered and lifeless body was laid in the tomb—the three nights and three days His body was entombed with Roman guards outside. Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea, and a member of …