Does it strike anyone else as odd that the religious holiday of Easter is so completely disconnected from the retail holiday of Easter? On one hand you’ve got candy, eggs, and bunnies, and on the other hand you’ve got an empty tomb and a resurrected Savior. There’s not a whole lot of connection. At least for Christmas you’ve got God’s gift to the world and a fat guy who gives gifts to all the world. It’s a slim connection, but it sort of makes sense. But rabbits and empty tombs really don’t relate.

And at Christmas you at least find nativity scenes in stores. They do actually acknowledge that Christmas is about more than Santa Claus. But at Easter they don’t sell little models of empty tombs. The stores really don’t acknowledge that part of Easter. Which means Easter is completely about dyeing eggs and eating candy. The mall and the grocery store close so we can stay home and find our hidden eggs. It’s really kind of weird.

It’s interesting that the church has become so irrelevant to our society today.