I receive a daily reminder of events in Christian History over the centuries. Today, Easter Sunday of 2020, had the following entry.
April 12, 1944: The National Religious Broadcasters Association is founded in Columbus, Ohio, in order to represent and build the credibility of Evangelical Christian broadcasters after a set of regulations, proposed by the Federal Council of Churches, banned paid religious programming and limited broadcast personalities to denominationally approved individuals, effectively removing Evangelicals from the airwaves.
I wonder how the message of Christ resurrection would have been published in Jesus’ day? Who would have published the headlines? What would have been said?
“He is risen.”
How would this have been written – according to women, to soldiers, to disciples, to religious leaders, to the ordinary person?
Perhaps I’m asking too much. As a person trained in archives, I know that documents don’t always survive. The question then is whether the documents we do have are reliable. I recognize that they may contain a bias. But to the best of the author’s ability, is this reporting or just wishing?
Without turning this into a full-blown research paper, I go with what is found in the Bible. Reliable and proven over the centuries through word and deed.
He is risen. He is risen indeed.