April 4, 2026

Holy Week has the church asking one question from every angle: who, exactly, is Jesus — and what does his death actually mean? Reformation21 goes straight to the hardest moment, sitting with "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me" and refusing to soften it. Desiring God takes the same cross and calls it conquest. Mere Orthodoxy finds the answer not in doctrine first but in two frightened men — Joseph and Nicodemus — who showed up to handle a body when the disciples had run. Relevant asks more bluntly: everybody has a version of Jesus, and most of those versions are wrong. These aren't the same argument. They're pulling on different threads of the same week.

Christianity Today runs a piece on Holy Saturday that may be the most quietly necessary thing in the feed — the day when nothing had happened yet, when hope was just a body in a tomb. That question of waiting has come up before. On March 30 we were watching writers wrestle with whether the mind can even orient itself toward resurrection hope. Saturday is what that disorientation actually feels like. Elsewhere, The Gospel Coalition offers something more personal: a single verse in 2 Corinthians 5 that broke a cycle of spiritual anxiety. Small testimony. Real stakes. And World Magazine has a Supreme Court ruling that gives Christian therapists new freedom in counseling — a legal story, but one that lands differently in a week when the church is already asking what it means to bring the whole gospel to a whole person.