Easter is the light shining in the darkness

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.