{"id":393,"date":"2025-04-26T23:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/?p=393"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:34:45","slug":"easter-the-season-of-the-resurrection-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-78.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-78.png 375w, https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-78-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During Lent 2023, I started reading the books in the <strong>Fullness of Time <\/strong>series which explored the significance of the ancient church calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lent. Esau McCaulley.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pentecost. Emilio Alvarez.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advent. Tish Harrison Warren.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christmas. Emily Hunter McGowin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Epiphany. Fleming Rutledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Easter. Wesley Hill (Released <strong>February 2025<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ordinary Time. Amy Peeler (Expected <strong>Spring 2026<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I just finished the Easter book. It was a short book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easter Sunday begins Eastertide, which is 40 days until Ascension Day in the Eastern Church or is 50 days until Pentecost in the Western Church. The Book of Acts is a main focus of study in the church during this time after Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I highly recommend these books to get an overview of the importance of the calendar in Christian formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Lent 2023, I started reading the books in the Fullness of Time series which explored the significance of the ancient church calendar. I just finished the Easter book. It was a short book. Easter Sunday begins Eastertide, which is 40 days until Ascension Day in the Eastern Church or is 50 days until Pentecost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}