We should be taking steps to celebrate Easter in creative new ways: in art, literature, children’s games, poetry, music, dance, festivals, bells, special concerts. … This is our greatest festival. Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have a Christianity.
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (2008), 256, as found in "The Greatest Easter Story Ever Told," by Gary E. Stevenson. General Conference April 2023
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