But you can’t prove that Easter is true by going backward, only by going forward. Because John says that’s where the risen Christ is, on the move, ahead of us, not behind us.

You know what is for me the main proof of Easter? It’s you! Despite all of the setbacks and perfectly good, understandable, rational reasons why you should not be here, more than 2000 years after the first Easter, there you are.

Jesus told us that where two or three are gathered, he would be there. And there he is, among us, undeniably present.