Who's in and who's out? How can we live with differences and disagreements? The stimulating sermons excerpted in this issue remind us that these issues have challenged the church since its earliest days.

On Easter morning the women fled in terror at the discovery that he whom they had thought safely in the tomb was shockingly out. May that astonishing reality strengthen us as we seek to mend the rents in our community and together carry Good News to the world.