Christ is risen!
Christ was raised from the dead!

Notice that we don’t say Jesus rose from the dead. We also don’t say that he came back. The resurrection is not the work of Jesus. It is the work of God in Jesus.

Even as Christians have fought for centuries over what to do with the nature of Jesus and the Trinity, there is one thing we agree on.

The resurrection is God’s doing.

I generally loathe how our theology and liturgical tradition use passive voice to describe how Jesus (and we!) is acted upon by God. Because I think we get it twisted.

This is why we need to be clear about resurrections. Because it’s a God thing. God is into raising the dead. Which thankfully includes faith and traditions, too.