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Today’s Briefing
Russell Moore on zombies, ghosts, and the Resurrection.
For Easter festivities this year, some churches are doing everything from helicopter egg drops to a skydiving Easter Bunny.
Christians should celebrate the Supreme Court’s “conversion therapy” ruling, professor Daniel Bennett writes.
What Jesus’ Maundy Thursday institution of the Lord’s Supper reveals about forgiveness.
A Q&A with author and journalist Jonathan Cheng on the evangelical roots of North Korea’s personality cult.
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Behind the Story
Today news writer Megan Fowler chronicles some of the creative ways churches are celebrating Easter. She and CT staffers weighed in on how their churches have celebrated Easters past and present:
From Megan: I just looked back at a piece I reported in 2020 on how churches pivoted their Easter outreach programs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some churches held Easter egg hunts to-go, with families driving up to the church to get a bag with all the supplies for at-home Easter egg hunts. Others encouraged members to serve first responders, like those working at hospitals and fire departments. But one church built a Minecraft server and held a digital Easter egg hunt. That seemed like an unexpected, fun way to engage students during a really dark time.
From editorial director for features Ashley Hales: We do a community egg hunt in a nearby park and a free lunch barbecue on Saturday. With some old-fashioned three-legged races, it’s lots of fun.
From senior news writer Cody Benjamin: It’s Holy Week, which means hundreds of hands are mixing, rolling, and dipping chocolate to fill mounds of egg cartons with homemade peanut butter eggs in the fellowship hall of Lititz Trinity, a 154-year-old Pennsylvania church in one of America’s coolest small towns—which also happens to be where I grew up. This was my grandparents’ church, but it was also like part of my family every Easter, when everyone and their mother from the Lititz area would line up to collect preordered treats by the dozens. The annual extravaganza is for a good cause, with funds fueling Trinity mission trips, but I think everyone who’s tasted these famous oversize peanut butter eggs would say they’ve been served as well. Sometimes God’s love is just sweet like that.
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In Other News
- A federal judge rejected a settlement that would have lifted a decades-long ban on pastors endorsing candidates, known as the Johnson Amendment. He also dismissed the lawsuit filed by the National Religious Broadcasters, which plans to appeal the decision.
- After serving six months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse, Gateway Church founder Robert Morris was released. CT covered Morris’s indictment and guilty plea.
- In oral arguments for a case dealing with the Trump administration’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, justices seemed skeptical of the president’s side. Contributor Sara Kyoungah White wrote for CT about how Trump’s order affected citizens like her.
Today in Christian History
April 2, 1877: Fundamentalist Baptist evangelist Mordecai Ham is born in Allen County, Kentucky. At the end of his ministry, he claimed one million converts—including Billy Graham, who made a declaration of faith at a 1934 Ham meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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IN THE MAGAZINE

In this issue of Christianity Today and in this season of the Christian year, we explore the bookends of life: birth and death. You’ll read Karen Swallow Prior’s essay on childlessness and Kara Bettis Carvalho’s overview of reproductive technologies. Haleluya Hadero reports on artificially intelligent griefbots, and Kristy Etheridge discusses physician-assisted suicide. There is much work to be done to promote life. We talk with Fleming Rutledge about the Crucifixion, knowing that while suffering lasts for a season, Jesus has triumphed over death through his death. This Lenten and Easter season, may these words be a companion as you consider how you might bring life in the spaces you inhabit.
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