Sermon by Rev. Terasa G. Cooley, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington on April 21, 2019. Presented by Debra Kroon.

On this Easter Sunday, we take a new look at the idea of the resurrection, through the words of Rev. Terasa G. Cooley of Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington. Here is a synopsis by Rev. Cooley: 

“Perhaps it’s my own wishful thinking, but I believe that what Jesus, the human being, intended, was not that people would create stories of his bodily resurrection, but that they would finally listen to what he had been trying to tell them all along: that the magic was in themselves. That the kingdom was not something off in another world, in another age, but here, among us now, between us now. That emptiness is not necessarily a disappointment, but the embodiment of hope…”