The meaning of Easter

[Opinion Editor’s note: This column was written to come out on Easter Sunday but it lost its way from Germany where the author was when he emailed it to us at The Times.]

This is the sacred time of year when we recall the life and death and resurrection of Jesus, the man from Nazareth. His life commitment to goodness and self-sacrifice as a champion of the poor and the oppressed led to his arrest torture and execution at the hands of the unjust and cruel authorities. He and his mission did not die and disappear forever nailed to the cross of the Roman execution squad.