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A few days after my youngest brother died last August, I started to think about Lazarus all the time.

A few days after my youngest brother died last August, I started to think about Lazarus all the time. Not a surprising turn of the mind, given the years I spent in Protestant Sunday schools where miracle stories are dispensed before the Goldfish crackers and Dixie cups of juice. The raising of Lazarus appears only in the Gospel of John, just 44 brief verses. Lazarus of Bethany was a friend of Jesus’s and brother to Mary and Martha. When Lazarus gets sick, his sisters send for Jesus, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” Love or not, Jesus does not fly to Lazarus’s side. He tarries two more

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