I’m not big on religious holidays. I know some look at all the holy days of Catholicism or similar faiths with envy. I don’t. I’m definitely a minimalist when it comes to religious days. Yet since the first day I arrived in Utah it has struck me as odd how minor a day Easter is. Spring break never coordinates with Easter. Friday and Monday aren’t holidays. Very little religiously<\/i> is done over Easter unless General Conference is on Easter.<\/p>\n
Why?
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\nEaster should be our biggest holiday. Far bigger than Christmas or especially Halloween. The events of Easter are the core of our religion. It remains a mystery to me how we really don’t treat it that way.<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not saying the fun family elements of Easter should be expanded. I love easter egg hunts, chocolate rabbits, colored eggs and more. They’re really not Easter and can obscure what Easter is about. At Christmas I don’t mind it as much as we do have nativity scenes everywhere. Somehow Easter though just seems more minor. I don’t understand why socially we treat it that way.<\/p>\n
If there’s one thing I wish Pres. Nelson would do would be to expand our Easter celebrations and center the year around Easter religiously. I think we can do that without necessarily borrowing heavily from Catholicism, where arguably Easter is central. I don’t think we need embrace remnants from medieval Christianity to make Easter an important part of our lives. We do have to do something more than we’re doing right now though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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