Easter, a time for Christians to consider the life, atoning sacrifice, and miraculous resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

But how can we use our knowledge of the Old Testament to deepen our Easter experiences,

and how can understanding how other religions approach Easter help us commit to being better Christians and better citizens of the religious

world. We'll discuss that and more in this episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast.

My name is Joseph Stewart, and I'm the public communication specialist of the Neely Maxwell Institute

for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Christian Heel is a research fellow at the

Institute. We'll be discussing the

week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Come Follow Me, Curriculum.

We aren't here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture

block so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints

and their testimonies with the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious

ideas. Today we are once again joined by Julia Evans, one of our research assistants, who is pursuing

a degree in linguistics and is preparing to attend law school. Before joining our research team at

the institute, Julia worked at the MTC as a Norwegian teacher and then as a training supervisor.

Currently, she is involved in undergraduate research in several areas of linguistics and

has strong interest in religion and philosophy. Welcome back, Julia.

Thank you so much. Glad to be here. We are thrilled to have you here.

Now, Christian, we usually have you give an overview of what's happening in the chapters,

but we figure that if folks are listening to this podcast, they know what Easter is. And I wanted you to think about what are some of the

encounters that you've had with Easter that have helped you to better appreciate not only

as miraculous nature, but to connect it to yourself as a Christian. I love Easter as a reason to draw deeply from the well of Christian tradition.

This is the time when Handel's Messiah blasts through our house.

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