He is Risen
I don’t usually celebrate Easter. Oh, there’s church and then some chocolate and easter eggs and a dinner I put a little more effort into than other days, but that’s it. Frankly, I don’t usually have the energy. Our party season runs from October to mid-March, encompassing eight birthdays, 4 major holidays and various minor ones. This year, however, I tried to recalibrate. Easter, not Christmas, should be the focal point of the Christian year. Christmas celebrates Christ’s birth, but Easter marks the culmination of what he was born for. Without the atonement and resurrection, Christianity has no purpose (1 Corinthinans 15:1-22). I don’t think it’s a coincidence that some traditions hold that Christ was actually born in the spring, a time of new beginnings and rebirth and hope since the earliest days of civilization. It also makes sense to associate his birth with the midwinter solstice, when the world turns and the light begins t...