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Easter Without Easter
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Easter Without Easter

Why the greatest dramas stop at Good Friday — and leave the Resurrection unspoken

Some of the most powerful stories ever broadcast were never meant to be religious. And yet, again and again, they carry us to the same place: a moment of conscience, a costly sacrifice, and then… silence.

In this episode of Chesterton Radio, broadcasting from Atchison, Kansas, we explore a strange and revealing pattern hidden within Saturday Night Theatre—from Unquiet Conscience to A Man for All Seasons.

Why does modern storytelling linger at the Cross… but hesitate at the empty tomb?

Is it a failure of imagination—or a deeper recognition that something too large to explain has already taken place?

This is not a program about Easter.

It is about the stories that almost reach it.

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