Waiting for Messiah: Remembering Easter 2020

By Rainbow Chang

The pandemic of the 2020 Easter season has been seen as transformative for human life. However, the transformation that modern science will bring into human life is even more fearfully exciting in the big picture of human history. The pandemic triggered a deep urgency in the author to question the Easter story in light of frontier science. When death is near us, we often think more about life and truth and are filled with the urge to experience them both.
In the Christian story, God was born, died, and was resurrected on earth; ascended into heaven from earth; and will bring the kingdom of God on earth. What will be the continuation of our Easter story if the earth is no longer our home? What's the real meaning of the resurrection of the dead in his return if modern science has achieved everlasting life before his return?
In this book, the questioning of truth is blended with a deep faith in the truth. It shows that waiting for the Messiah is not a stilled life putting the future on pause but a dance of life. For the characters of this book, the dance of life in lockdown in a small town did not block their awareness of hunger, violence, and injustice happening in the world or limit their vision for the kingdom of God. That could be said about millions of lives at the time of Easter 2020, as millions of people have given their lives for others. Remembering the Easter of 2020 is remembering you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Mar 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781725290693

Rainbow Chang

Rainbow Chang is the author of The Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ According to the Four Gospels—A Poetic Meditation. She studied theatre in London and studied theology at Oxford University. She lives in Oxford, U.K. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Waiting for Messiah

Remembering Easter

2020

Rainbow Chang

Waiting for Messiah

Remembering Easter

2020

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Passover Seder/ The Last Supper, 8th of April 2020

Good Friday, 10th of April 2020

Easter Sunday, 12th of April 2020

9 days after Ascension Day, 30th of May 2020

Drawings

It is written as a play. It provides actions like life painting performance and life music performance on the stage, and also religious ritual like Pascal Seder, Holy Communion, micro observation with magnifying glasses of insects, Coronavirus and space exploration with telescope and live event of launching rocket to the space by SpaceX in Florida Kennedy Space Centre.

The pictures in this book were the drawings produced by my daughter Arabella during the Easter season

2020

. At the time, she has just turned

4

years old. These wonderful drawings, I hope, are not only part of the remembering of Easter

2020

for me and for her personally, and also represents the beautiful resilience of our shared humanity towards suffering, death and fear. we might have faced the darkest hour, we are facing the darkest hour and we will face the darkest hour but we shall rise. We shall rise and upheld with the beautiful things in our hands which we have created in the darkest hours, and we shall rise up and uphold beauty within us as God will raise us up more than we can