Nikolai Bukharin’s mistake, and the mistake of many people, then and now, is to treat the Christian faith like an ideology. Looking for Jesus Christ among the dead.
But the truth of Easter is not to be found in the grave of past experience, of pre-conceived expectations, it’s in the joy and constant surprises of new life, which Jesus brings us.
But will we recognise him when he turns up ”“ unexpectedly ”“ drying our tears, as he dried Mary’s in the garden by the tomb; when he breaks through the barriers we – like the frightened disciples – build around ourselves?