Ruth L. Boling

Risen Indeed

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:30:19 GMT

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What did Easter mean to those who were there, and what might it mean for us today?

This Lent, step inside the story at the heart of the Christian faith. In Risen Indeed: Easter Letters from Those Who Were There, familiar and unexpected voices from scripture write to us from across time to share their personal experiences of Jesus's final days. Through creatively imagined first-person letters, characters like Mary Magdalene, Peter, the Samaritan woman, Pontius Pilate, Barabbas, and Judas reflect on how they were forever changed by the events of Holy Week. In these often-surprising accounts, radically diverse voices create space and inspiration for us to ponder our own understanding of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

Written by the author of the bestselling Season's Greetings: Christmas Letters from Those Who Were There, this new seasonal devotional includes companion prayers, questions for reflection, and journaling prompts to help readers linger and connect holistically with the biblical story.

Risen Indeed invites lifelong Christians and spiritual seekers alike to sit with their questions of the Resurrection, probe what they've always been taught, and in so doing, draw new and deeper conclusions from the traditional Easter greeting, "The Lord is risen."

This Lent, encounter the mystery and hope of Easter anew with this extraordinary and unique Lenten devotional from popular author Ruth Boling.

Season's Greetings

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:06:46 GMT

“Be prepared in this book to meet the people of the biblical Christmas story in ways you have never encountered them before.”—Thomas G. Long, Candler School of Theology

Imagine opening your mailbox to find a bundle of Christmas letters addressed to you from long-ago Bible characters who were there for the birth of Jesus. Mary. Joseph. The innkeeper. A shepherd. The midwife. King Herod. The Magi. How do each of these writers remember the unfolding story? What did they know? When did they know it? How did it change them?

In Season's Greetings, twelve vividly imagined letters from "those who were there" speak to the many meanings of Christmas. Awe. Wonder. Disruption. Scandal. Hope. Collected together, the letters invite you—the reader—to add your voice to the conversation, to put Christmas into your own words.

Scripture texts, companion prayers, reflection questions and journaling prompts accompanying each letter lend themselves to individual or group study.

Whether you love Christmas or dread it, whether you are a believer or a skeptic, the letters in Season's Greetings will speak to you. This Advent devotional delivers straight talk with honesty, intellectual rigor and a touch of humor, allowing you to hear with new ears the old, old story that changed—and is changing—the world.

Season's Greetings also includes an Afterword for Clergy and Church Leaders offering creative ideas for using the book in various ministry contexts, as well as a Small Group Leader's Guide.

READ A SAMPLE.

Season's Greetings

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:36:46 GMT

“Be prepared in this book to meet the people of the biblical Christmas story in ways you have never encountered them before.”—Thomas G. Long, Candler School of Theology

Scripture texts, companion prayers, reflection questions and journaling prompts accompanying each letter lend themselves to individual or group study.

Season's Greetings also includes an Afterword for Clergy and Church Leaders offering creative ideas for using the book in various ministry contexts, as well as a Small Group Leader's Guide.

READ A SAMPLE.