Last week Mary Magdalene encountered Jesus in the garden on the day of resurrection.  The writer of John echoed images from the Garden of Eden.  Resurrection ushers in a new creation—all is new again. Today the disciples huddle together behind locked doors.  They likely had heard the Magdalene’s...

The story of resurrection we’ve just heard is a lot like the others. Women—in this case one woman—comes to the tomb and finds it empty. And except for in Mark, they run to tell the others and a couple of them dash back to the scene. Then they see the empty tomb and wander away, confused and dazed...

One of the women in my poetry writing group was talking this week about her Easter Sunday gathering with family and friends.  She doesn’t identify as Christian, so I asked how they celebrate.  “Well,” she said, “Easter is about new life.  And it’s spring.  That’s about new life. So for a long time...