“Suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.”

John says that they got to the tomb on Easter morning, and it's empty. Then, they go back home.

Go back home? Reminds you of the two disciples in Luke on the way to Emmaus. “Some women told us that Jesus had been raised from the dead, but we had already planned to have supper over in Emmaus, so we couldn't change our reservations...”

A man is raised from the dead and you can't cancel lunch? How dumb are these disciples?

So my friend Stanley Hauerwas, in dialogue with dear Marcus Borg of the errant Jesus Seminar says, “Marcus thinks the disciples had an experience. They said, ‘Wasn't it great being with Jesus before they killed him? You remember those great st…