The Peoples' Communist Bible Study: The Easter Edition

This week, Charley is joined by Rev. Dwight Welch of Norman OK United Church for a dialogue about the revolutionary politics of Jesus and the meaning of the resurrection. This episode is the pilot of a new series of podcasts "The Peoples Communist Bible Study." Dwight and I begin with Palm Sunday, which was celebrated in the Western churches last week, go back to the Lukan "Sermon on the Plain" which declares "Blessed are the poor." Briefly consider whether bodily resurrection is the main point of the Easter stories, then discuss how these very old stories mean something today, if not what conventional Christiainity claims they mean.