A season of resurrection.

You Tell Me Texas ^ | 4/17/25 | Paul Gleiser

[DallasBiff]

For Christians this is an important week. It’s when Christians observe the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It is the resurrection – rather than the crucifixion or even the nativity – that stands at the heart of the Christian faith. Jesus’s followers couldn’t avoid seeing the brutality of His crucifixion. What they didn’t see coming was the resurrection.

If it weren’t for the resurrection that we celebrate every Easter, it’s unlikely that we would still be celebrating the nativity every Christmas

Resurrection, the triumph of life over death, hope over despair, lies at the heart of what gives Christianity its appeal. Whether you believe in the literal bodily resurrection of Christ or not, the resurrection story of ultimate triumph – of things working out in the end despite appearing to be hopeless – provides the basis for an optimistic life. (Living pessimistically, to my way of thinking, is to be barely living at all.)

But with that disclaimer fully stated, I am struck this Easter by some clear parallels between the politics of Jesus’s day and the politics of now.

Let’s start with the obvious. Jesus was a disrupter. So is Donald Trump.

In Jesus’s day the religious leaders (i.e. the Pharisees and the Sadducees), the lawyers (i.e. the Scribes), and the religious ruling council (i.e. the Sanhedrin) – in other words the entirety of the ‘establishment’ – were uniform in their opposition to Jesus. Jesus’s teachings threatened their power and standing. If you went to Sunday School as a kid you were told of Jesus throwing the moneychangers out of the temple. The establishment was comfortable. Jesus made them decidedly uncomfortable.

[DallasBiff]

The uni-party in DC hates Trump and they have thrown all their stones at him and he is still standing.

Something to think about on this Good Friday.

[ASOC]

“He is risen”

It is a timeless message.