When I was in seminary, I took an introductory theology course with Professor Christopher Morse[1]. One day, Professor Morse began his lecture on the resurrection by reading a poem, Seven Stanzas at Easter, that had been written by John Updike in 1960. The poem goes like this:

“Make no mistake:
if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse,
the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.”
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