It’s All About Tradition

Spoiler alert coming: Ask a Methodist to tell you how Christians honor and celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ, and you’ll hear pretty much the same thing from all of us. Traditions like waving palm fronds on Palm Sunday and having sunrise services on Easter morning are so familiar to so many of us, it may have never entered our minds that there are Christians whose services and rituals are completely unlike our own. And guess what? They’re just as traditional—and important—as ours.

Bunnies, Eggs, and Jesus! It Must Be Easter!

Easter is coming and the stores are filling their shelves with bunnies, eggs, and Easter baskets. The items are bright and inviting with themes from Disney characters to superheroes. But as Christians we often wonder, “What does this have to do with the real meaning of Easter?”

The Physicality of the Resurrection

The Christian faith, taking its cues from Jesus, is insistently material, corporeal, anthropomorphic, muscular, and incarnational. “The Word became flesh.” God’s Word has become a person, a person in motion. Jesus is God Almighty daring to get physical; God with a body, a body in action. After his body was brutally crucified, Jesus moved, not out of a body but rather into a body of a very different sort.