This edition, we trust, will help deepen your devotion during Holy Week.
We begin with the glorious end of this week: The resurrection of our Lord. Ted Olsen helps us address a disturbing fact: Jesus isn’t the only person to have come back from the dead. What’s the difference between Jesus’ resurrection and these other stories, some of which are in Scripture? The difference, as a reader of this digizine might suspect, leads us into another experience of wonder.
The article on seeds (“Seeds—Small and Mighty”) is our science piece for the issue, a fascinating look at the crucial ubiquity of these little things. It subtly harkens Jesus’ own allusion to his death: “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (John 12:24).
An article on how God stoops to our level when he communicates with us—which helps us make sense of the scientific “inaccuracies” of some parables—and a moving poem about Good Friday round out this issue (with our regular exclamation point of Wonder on the Web at the end).
—Mark Galli, co-editor
