Living the Resurrection
Let us say it plainly. Easter is not a remembrance of the past. It is a present demand. Easter calls us to rise from fear, exclusion, and violence. It pushes us to choose peace, love, and justice—not just as values, but as actions. Let us be clear. Resurrection is not only something that happened to Jesus. It is something that must happen in us. If Easter means anything, it means that death does not get the final word—not in systems, not in hearts, not in how we treat each other. We must stop making the resurrection only about history and start living it as a present challenge. New life is not a myth. It is our task.
Go now and live the resurrection—
refusing fear, rejecting violence, and
embodying the new life of justice, mercy, and love.
(inspired by Brian D. McLaren, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?; Steven Charleston, Ladder to the Light)