April 6, 2026

Today the church is thinking about Holy Saturday — the day between death and resurrection — and what it means to wait in the dark without collapsing. Christianity Today calls it a scandal: Christ in the grave, silent, apparently defeated. Mere Orthodoxy frames it as a psalm for desperate souls — mercy arriving not when you've cleaned yourself up, but precisely when you haven't. The Guardian and Desiring God are both insisting Easter doesn't paper over suffering — it goes through it. The question underneath all of it: can you trust a God who lets Saturday happen at all?

That question connects to everything else in the feed right now. TGC ran a piece pushing back on Nietzsche's contempt for weakness — strength perfected in suffering isn't defeat, it's the logic of the cross. The Aquila Report is running harder in a different direction: Jonah's problem wasn't doubt, it was resentment of mercy extended to people he thought didn't deserve it. Half-hearted obedience is the same problem with a softer face — also from the Aquila Report. We've been watching this tension since March 24 — whether the church actually believes God works through suffering, or just says so. Easter Sunday is tomorrow. The church hasn't fully answered it yet.