Newsweek on the Resurrection

Newsweek has been much maligned over the years for skeptical and sometime downright hostile articles about God, Jesus, Christianity, and religion in general. So I was quite shocked at their latest cover story regarding the Ressurection. It is hardly a resounding call to faith, but it admits that something happened at the tomb around 30 A.D. which can not be merely dismissed as a "theological rationalization."

The uniqueness—one could say oddity, or implausibility—of the story of Jesus' resurrection argues that the tradition is more likely historical than theological. Either from a "revelation" from the risen Jesus or from the reports of the earliest followers, Paul "received" a tradition that the resurrection was the hinge of history, the moment after which nothing would ever be the same.
"If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain ..." Paul writes. "Lo! I will tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet."

Wow. One has to wonder if this is a religious awakening within Newsweek, an attempted hand of friendship to the "Red States," or a sign of the turning of the academic wheel back towards accepting the possibility of the supernatural.