Holding a belief like a flame that they hold in their hearts

Bill Whittle and Andrew Klaven talk about the resurrection of Jesus here.
Thanks to Scott Ott for linking to this wonderful discussion.

He is risen!

Fr. Robert Barron writes,

We find reports of many different people who experienced Jesus alive after his death and burial: Peter, John, Mary Magdalene, the twelve, “five hundred brothers at once,” and Paul. Does it strike you as reasonable that all of these people, on different occasions, were having hallucinations of the same person?

Paul wasn’t grieving for Jesus at all; in fact, he was actively persecuting Jesus’ followers. He didn’t crave communion with a dead Master; he was trying to stamp out the memory of someone he took to be a pernicious betrayer of Judaism. And yet, his experience of the risen Jesus was so powerful that it utterly transformed his life, and he went to his death defending the objectivity of it.

"When Jesus came to life"

A little boy I met today was singing over and over, "It's Easter, It's Easter." I asked him, "What is Easter?"

He answered, "Candy and eggs and stuff." I thanked him, but then he added excitedly, "It's also when Jesus came to life!"

I gave him a big high five.