Sorry, MSW, this flippant comment captures your whole column:

"I have no idea what my risen body might be like, but if such a thing does exist, I want it to be closer to the bodies at the pool than to a metaphor"

From Ed Foley's homily on the 4th Sunday of Lent:

"God sees rightly – we don’t
 sin disables us to see God’s ways.
 If we renounce our sin and turn to Jesus,
 all will be clear and we will live in the light.
 Through Christ our Lord … Amen.

This rendering of the texts is both quick
 and provides a religious “fix”
while such preaching is usually not that transparent
 and quick fixes are often couched
 in more nuanced rhetoric.

That fact that such a quick fix approach
 is rampant among preachers and bloggers.
 Is evident to me in the number of them
 who suggested preaching on the text “Amazing Grace”
with its “once I was lost, but now I’m found, was blind but now I see.”

Is it really that simple?
 And if not,
 what is the alternative to quick fix Sunday?"

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