Christ is risen from the dead! The resurrection message has become a settled part of the mental furniture of most Christians—something that we have come to know so well that its sheer strangeness is often lost on us. The Church’s long experience of living with the message of the resurrection and experiencing its transforming impact often prevents us from realizing that it is actually an incredible, even astounding, idea. It is something that we need to approach as if we were encountering it for the