These are some of the headlines from Easter Sunday. If Easter were about plastic eggs and pastels, candy and churchy activities, I would not celebrate it. Probably no one would. But Easter has more to do with today’s headlines than with today’s Easter baskets – it’s about the beginning of the restoration of all things. It’s about a God who is with us here, who grieves with us for a season while He works to make all things new. I don’t understand, or believe, all this as well as I want to, but I do believe that that larger story is the only one that matters. God forgive us for our part in those headlines. Happy Easter, everyone.

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