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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

This is the first Good Friday in Christian history to be observed primarily online.

Millions of Christians are attending worship services through digital means, unless they have

their own chapel, that is.

The Christ family lives on a slice of pasture land, an hour southeast of Oklahoma City. They usually worship with

the Wewoka Church of Christ. But three years ago, Ryan Christ constructed a tiny chapel,

about 12 feet wide and 25 feet long on their property. It has six small pews and can hold about

a dozen non-social distancing adults. As the Christian

Chronicle article notes, that's more than enough for a family of four stuck at home in the

midst of a pandemic. According to his wife, Ryan is always looking for ways to share his faith.

His last name helps. When people ask him if he's related to Jesus Christ, he always comes

back with, I'm not him, but I know him, she says. So can we, because of what happened on this day

20 centuries ago. Carl Barth is often considered the most important theologian of the 20th century.

In 1962, on his one visit to America, he was asked how he would summarize the millions of words he had published.

Barth replied,

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.

And what the Bible tells us is that Jesus loves us enough to die for us.

Frederick Beekner observed, a six-pointed star, a crescent moon, a lotus.

The symbols of other religions suggest beauty and light.

The symbol of Christianity is an instrument of death. People wear crosses

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