Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

May the Risen Lord breathe on our minds and open ... Heavenly Father and God of mercy, we no longer look for Jesus among the dead, for He is alive and has become the Lord of life.

Jesus did not let cultural or religious taboos stand in his way. He breaks through such petty barriers to restore our life. Jesus knocks down walls that seem as unbreachable as death. Nothing stops ...

The Navarre Bible continues, “From these details concerning the empty tomb one deduces that Jesus’ body must have risen in a heavenly ... much easier to carry a dead body with cloths on ...