The Immediate Word
Of Fear And Superstition
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In the gospel text appointed by the lectionary for the Third Sunday of Easter, Luke depicts a group of disciples gripped by sheer terror -- stoked both by the difficulty of wrapping their minds around the seeming impossibility of it all (epitomized by Thomas's initial skepticism in last week's text) and their understandable fear at the fate awaiting them if they were to be identified as followers of Jesus and fall into the hands of the embarrassed Roman authorities.
