Baptized Into Christ

Soon enough we'll have Easter egg hunts happening all over this country. In fact we'll be having a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt at Hope this year. But there's a different kind of Easter egg hunt that happens all year long.  It's the hunt for "Easter eggs" that have been placed into games and movies.  The always reliable Wikipedia defines this kind of Easter egg as follows: An Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, a hidden message, or a secret feature of an interactive work (often, a computer program, video game or DVD menu screen). The name is used to evoke the idea of a traditional Easter egg hunt.[2] The term was coined to describe a hidden message in the Atari video game Adventure that led Atari to encourage further hidden messages in later games, treating them as Easter eggs for players to find. Pixar movies are well known for having Easter eggs sprinkled throughout their movies.   Video games too, are well known for such Easter eggs. T...

Recently, the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch got started. Senator Ben Sasse (from Nebraska), in his opening remarks for the hearing, said some interesting things that are actually helpful and good reminders for us in the church. Here’s part of what he said. I want to focus my opening remarks around a simple image: a judge’s black robe. It’s a strange thing that judges wear robes. But instead of looking past this strange convention, let’s look right at it. For it isn’t just some relic from the past. It isn’t just something people wore long ago in a forgotten era of formality, like a powdered wig. So why do the robes – often unfashionable and unflattering – persist? The reasons were summed up better than I could put it by one sitting judge. He said: “[D]onning a robe doesn’t make me any smarter. But the robe does mean something – and not just that I can hide coffee stains on my shirt. It serves as a reminder of what’s expected of us – what Burke c...