What you believe about the beginning shapes what your hope is for the end in significant ways.

The Bible ties the two together remarkably.

Dr. Tom Eger making the case for the biblical account of creation at the 2025 issues, etc. making the case conference.

The Bible confesses the God of Israel and confesses Jesus Christ as the first and the last,

the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.

And what we believe about how he brought about the beginning, I think ultimately

shapes or impacts our confidence and proclamation of what to expect about the beginning. I think ultimately shapes or impacts our confidence and proclamation

of what to expect about the end. For an online contribution of $300 by Holy Cross Day, September 14th,

we'll send you a link to video and audio recordings of Dr. Eggers' teaching and all of this

year's conference presentations.

Find out more at Issuesetc.org or by calling 618223-83-85. When it comes to something that our culture used to call disability, we remain somewhat schizophrenic.

Yes, as a society and as a culture, we have become more accepting.

The stigma of disability has been largely removed in the minds of most,

and yet we still are schizophrenic.

We then turn around and rewrite the words.

Instead of saying disabled, we'll say something like differently able,

and that reveals something about our culture's understanding of suffering, infirmity, and disability.

Welcome back to Issues, Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, physical infirmity, and the

resurrection of the body, Dr. Scott Stigemeyer, he's Professor of Theology and Bioethics at Concordia University,

Irvine, California. He's author of a column for the latest Concordia Theological Quarterly,

titled Disability and the Resurrection of the Body in Flannery O'Connor. Scott, welcome back.

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