As the son of a pastor, I learned early on that each season of the Christian calendar brought with it a new set of questions. In that regard, Easter was no exception: for one, there was the whole resurrection thing; for another, that small matter of the ascension. Not easy to wrap your head around either, even at six.
Yet somehow it was always "Good Friday" that stumped me most. After all, the day commemorates how an innocent man was brutalized,...
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