Easter Day

Easter Day begins in John’s Gospel with darkness, grief, and an open tomb. Mary Magdalene arrives before understanding catches up, and the resurrection breaks into the world as disruption rather than slogan. This episode reflects on Easter as the Creator’s vindication of Truth and Reality, Jesus as Love undestroyed, and the Spirit as Peace stronger than domination. From there, the reflection turns toward Paul, myth, and history. Paul preserved the Christ movement by giving it symbolic and cosmic durability, but the practical grammar for resisting empire remained less fully developed. This episode explores satyagraha, truth-force or soul-force, as the likely historical answer Paul was reaching toward, and asks whether the return of Christ may be realized through the large-scale embodiment of truthful love in history. You are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe