Easter Resources 2020

I've been posting a collection of Easter resources each year for about a decade:

2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

There's an archive of our posts with the Easter label here. And you can search for posts with other labels by replacing the word Easter in the URL with another phrase (Resurrection, Empty Tomb, Cross, etc.). Keep clicking on Older Posts at the bottom of the screen to see more posts.

We've written some e-books that address Easter issues. See the e-books section of the sidebar to the right.

A few years ago, I posted a collection of articles on skeptical myths about the church fathers. Many of those articles address Easter issues.

Here are some examples of posts we've written on Easter subjects over the years:

Miracles On Video
Easter Prophecy Fulfillment
Resurrection Evidence Outside The New Testament
Early Non-Extant Documents On The Resurrection
Evidence For The Empty Tomb
Early Affirmation Of The Empty Tomb From Gentile Non-Christians
Jesus' Burial And Empty Tomb Outside The Gospels And Acts
Evidence For The Shroud Of Turin
Fifty Agreements Among The Resurrection Accounts
The Consistencies Among The Resurrection Accounts In 1 Corinthians 15, The Gospels, And Acts
The Restrained Nature Of The Resurrection Accounts
The Contrast Between The Prominence Of Female Witnesses In Luke And Their Lack Of Prominence In Acts
Alleged Errors And Contradictions In The Resurrection Accounts
Harmonizing The Resurrection Accounts
The Context In Which The Gospels Were Composed
How Early The Synoptics And Acts Were Written
The Authorship Of Matthew
The Authorship Of Mark
The Authorship Of Luke And Acts
The Authorship Of John
The Authorship Of The Pauline Letters (see the comments section)
The Historicity Of Acts
Easter Material Corroborated In The Letters Of Peter
Why It's Significant That The Earliest Sources Don't Narrate The Resurrection Appearance To James
Evidence That Saul Of Tarsus Saw Jesus Risen From The Dead
The Spiritual Body Of 1 Corinthians 15
Why Didn't The Risen Jesus Appear To More And Different People?
Why Doesn't Jesus Appear To Everybody?
Matthew 27:52-53
How The Apostles Died
How To Make A Case For The Resurrection
Independent, Converging Lines Of Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection
What If Alleged Miracles, Like Jesus' Resurrection, Were Caused By A Currently Unknown Natural Process?
Miracles In The Modern World
Reviews Of Debates On Jesus' Resurrection

After the 2019 Easter Resources post linked above, Steve Hays linked an article on astronomical evidence for the date of the crucifixion. Here's something I wrote about Jesus' fulfillment of the first three Servant Songs in Isaiah. Steve presented an argument for penal substitution based on the events surrounding Jesus' death. I wrote a post addressing the common claim that the guards at the tomb, people touching Jesus' resurrection body, and other such details in the resurrection accounts were fabricated in an attempt to make the resurrection seem more credible. Steve linked a video of Darrell Bock and Gary Habermas discussing the evidence for the resurrection and its implications. He also posted some Good Friday artwork and music (here, here, here, here, and here). And he posted a satirical video about the regulative principle of worship and Easter. I wrote about the significance of prophecy fulfillment in the context of Easter. Steve responded to a skeptic of the resurrection. His response addresses Paul's view of the resurrection, the empty tomb, and a lot of other issues. I wrote about how the gospels are corroborated in the letters of Peter. The post addresses the crucifixion, the empty tomb, whether the author of the letters claims to have been a resurrection witness, and other issues related to Easter. Steve wrote about the appearance of Jesus to Paul on the road to Damascus, the nature of the appearance and the evidence for it. Later, he posted some excerpts from a book about the resurrection of the Servant in Isaiah 52-53. In another post, he addressed the light motif in scripture and how it relates to resurrection. He later discussed the passages in John 20 that refer to Jesus appearing to people after the door where they were had been locked. He also wrote about the implications of idealism for Jesus' death and resurrection. I made some suggestions about how we should argue for prophecy fulfillment, such as by using the Servant Songs to argue for fulfillment in the modern world. Steve linked an article by Gary Habermas on how Jewish scholars have viewed Jesus' resurrection. I wrote about some connections between Easter and Christmas in Isaiah's Servant Songs. Steve posted about a recent book by Lydia McGrew, and he commented on some issues related to Easter in the process. He then commented on John 20 and whether and how the resurrected Jesus walked through walls. He also linked a video by Michael Brown about Matthew 27:52-53. I expanded on the theme of light in the gospels, in connection with Jesus seeing himself as the light of Isaiah's Servant Songs. Steve addressed some alleged contradictions among the gospel accounts about the women who went to Jesus' tomb and, in another post, the women at the cross. I wrote about video evidence for miracles, which is relevant to disputes over the possibility of miracles and what evidence we have for them. The post discusses some of the principles involved in evaluating miracle claims and the significance of video evidence, and I provide links to some online videos of miracles. Steve quoted Lydia McGrew on the earliest evidence for the resurrection. He also quoted her on the subject of harmonizing the resurrection accounts.