Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a fieloden.

Hey friends, I am recording this right before our Easter celebration. In fact, it's good Friday

today. One of the most special, powerful days in Christian history. Some would argue it is the

most powerful day, but Turt history kind of shows us that resurrection and Easter day was the

ultimate clincher in that regard. Is that the first time we've ever heard resurrection day

referred to as a clincher? Maybe, but it's the truth. And I'm excited to join you today to talk

about the history of Easter. So if you grabbed my Easter ebook, The Celebration Guide that I released

in the last every woman of theologian shop, then you already know a lot of this. But if you didn't,

this will be new to you, probably a little history of Easter, where it came from, why we celebrate

it, how it used to be celebrated, and a little bit about the bunnies and the eggs. I am super passionate

about celebrating the holidays that are part of Christian history and legacy. I think so much

of the richness of these holidays has been forgotten in the past due to denominational conflicts

due to corruption in church history. And even due to ignorance and the lack of church history

education today, many people don't actually know the origins of these holidays. And so it's really

easy to get sucked in by posts on Instagram about their pagan roots and how they're not actually

Christian at all without realizing that even those posts have a very specific theological bias

often towards celebrating Jewish holidays, not recognizing the roots in biblical authority

and history, church Christian church history that the Christian holidays have. And so in this little

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