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Behind the Story

Today news writer Megan Fowler chronicles some of the creative ways churches are celebrating Easter. She and CT staffers weighed in on how their churches have celebrated Easters past and present:

From Megan: I just looked back at a piece I reported in 2020 on how churches pivoted their Easter outreach programs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some churches held Easter egg hunts to-go, with families driving up to the church to get a bag with all the supplies for at-home Easter egg hunts. Others encouraged members to serve first responders, like those working at hospitals and fire departments. But one church built a Minecraft server and held a digital Easter egg hunt. That seemed like an unexpected, fun way to engage students during a really dark time.

From editorial director for features Ashley Hales: We do a community egg hunt in a nearby park and a free lunch barbecue on Saturday. With some old-fashioned three-legged races, it’s lots of fun.

From senior news writer Cody Benjamin: It’s Holy Week, which means hundreds of hands are mixing, rolling, and dipping chocolate to fill mounds of egg cartons with homemade peanut butter eggs in the fellowship hall of Lititz Trinity, a 154-year-old Pennsylvania church in one of America’s coolest small towns—which also happens to be where I grew up. This was my grandparents’ church, but it was also like part of my family every Easter, when everyone and their mother from the Lititz area would line up to collect preordered treats by the dozens. The annual extravaganza is for a good cause, with funds fueling Trinity mission trips, but I think everyone who’s tasted these famous oversize peanut butter eggs would say they’ve been served as well. Sometimes God’s love is just sweet like that. A federal judge rejected a settlement that would have lifted a decades-long ban on pastors endorsing candidates, known as the Johnson Amendment. He also dismissed the lawsuit filed by the National Religious Broadcasters, which plans to appeal the decision. After serving six months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse, Gateway Church founder Robert Morris was released. CT covered Morris’s indictment and guilty plea. In oral arguments for a case dealing with the Trump administration’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, justices seemed skeptical of the president’s side. Contributor Sara Kyoungah White wrote for CT about how Trump’s order affected citizens like her. Today in Christian History April 2, 1877: Fundamentalist Baptist evangelist Mordecai Ham is born in Allen County, Kentucky. At the end of his ministry, he claimed one million converts—including Billy Graham, who made a declaration of faith at a 1934 Ham meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.