"From the Pulpit" is a weekly column of faith, shared by Central Illinois faith leaders. This week: What really happened at Jesus' tomb?

and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the sepulchre. Lord Jesus Christ, in your burial you have taken on ...

Mary Magdalene famously found the tomb empty on the third day, mistaking Jesus for a gardener, but I like to imagine that she visited the day in between Jesus’ death and resurrection as well.

Most of us will gather on Resurrection Sunday supremely confident in our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ironically, the opposite was true of the first Christians on the first Easter. While they had ...