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Don't read this until after Easter!

Holy Week and Easter are upon us. Soon we shall be confessing the ancient Christian liturgy of praise: “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. Alleluia!” The resurrection of Jesus is the linchpin of the Christian faith. Without it everything falls apart. Saint Paul recognized this back in I Corinthians 15. “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins…. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.” Or as Saint John put it in his first letter: “No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.” If we misread the life of Jesus we will miss the entire plan of the Father to make us righteous and worthy of eternal life. The fact that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead is a historical fact. The evidence is just as great for Jesus being raised from the dead as any ancient historical event. And that is not simply looking at the Bible with a naïve eye. Arche