Drawn to the story
Photo by Aaron Epp.
Once a Christian, Lukas Thiessen now identifies as an atheist. He identifies the Bible as one of the books that has most influenced his life, and still reads stories from the gospels every Easter.
Photo by Gerhard Epp.
For me as a Christian, belief in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and having a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, is what makes the story important. I want to believe that the stories in the Bible are somehow more important than any other story.
(Aaron Epp)
Do you know any atheists who celebrate Easter? I do.
As you read this, A Year of Reading Biblically—the challenge I and a number of Canadian Mennonite readers have undertaken to read through the Bible from cover to cover in 2014—is over. But as I write this, it’s mid-December and I still have a few weeks left to finish.