It’s easy to forget how strange the story of Jesus’s resurrection is, or how it might sound to someone hearing it for the first time. The broad strokes — God became human, taught and healed, was crucified by those he loved, and then rose from the dead — might cause a curious alien to tilt his head and squint.

The “Good News” of Jesus’ resurrection — a term Christians subversively borrowed from Roman military proclamations — has always been difficult to explain. The task grows more complex in today’s age of breakneck technological development, which scatters our shared cultural narratives like the tongues at Babel.