Resurrection Is Everywhere

Mr. Sittenfeld delivered a version of this essay to his fellow prisoners at Ashland Satellite Prison Camp in Kentucky.

If you were to pause the Christian story of Easter at the moment Jesus dies on the cross, it would look like a victory for power and cruelty. But soon there’s the empty tomb, the angel of the Lord proclaims, “He is risen,” and a resurrected Jesus tells his disciples, “I am with you always.”

In other words, death isn’t death. That is the radical, provocative, hopeful message of Easter. I believe that same familiar notion of resurrection applies to........

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