Dear Saints,

Happy Easter!

Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked, “It is love that believes the resurrection.” And I believe he’s right, because the resurrection isn’t just a doctrine to affirm; it’s a revolution to join.

Wittgenstein isn’t denying that reason matters. In fact, the resurrection of Jesus is one of the most historically grounded events in the ancient world. If you want to explore the evidence, I highly recommend N.T. Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God or Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ. Both offer compelling arguments that Jesus truly and bodily rose from the dead.

But Wittgenstein is getting at something more: that the heart must respond. The resurrection demands more than intellectual assent -- it demands love. The heart, that deep center of the person, must be awakened, pierced, moved. And when it is, it does what love does: it believes, it follows, it entrusts itself to the Beloved.

The resurrection is not the happy ending to a tragic story - it’s the launching of God's new creation. Easter is not about escaping the world; it’s about God’s plan to renew it, to raise it to new life. The risen Jesus is the firstborn from the dead, the first piece of God’s new world. In him, God’s promised future of peace and justice has burst into the present.

And love is how we live in that future; it’s how we join the revolution that Jesus kickstarted on the Cross.

To trust and follow Jesus is to live in the power of this new world - to live, even now, the life of the world to come. It costs us everything, but it gives us everything. For love has already conquered death. And if love has conquered death, then what can it not conquer in our hearts, in our homes, and in our world?

In the peace of the risen Christ,

Father Daniel

δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ