The late Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey once said, “No Resurrection, no Christianity.” On this most solemn and joyous feast of Christ’s victory over sin and death, what does Jesus’ Resurrection say to you?

What do we do with nothing? This may seem like a meaningless question at first. Nothing is a vacuum, an absence, a void. You can’t do anything with nothing.

Michael Jordan is consistently ranked among the greatest basketball players of all time. He was the lead player on the six-time championship-winning Chicago Bulls team of the 1990s. He won every honor and accolade of his sport.

Toward the end of her life, Mom began failing mentally. She had a tendency to get confused and tell stories about herself that contained a dose of reality amid a mishmash of things she heard on the news. We learned to take much of what she said with a grain of salt.

The great American author Mark Twain experienced his share of untimely deaths—probably more, actually.

On this day the Lord has made, we ask for the forgiveness of sins Christ promises us through him.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.