Today’s post is an article I wrote for Christians for Social Action (CSA). You can read the edited version here. I have included the unedited version below.

The words from the apostle Thomas uttered days after the resurrection rest in infamy. His disbelief that Jesus had in fact returned to life—conquering death—left him understandably skeptical.

“Unless I see in his hands the holes from the nails, and put my finger...