Easter for Doubters & Skeptics

Easter for Doubters & Skeptics

From Heretic Hereafter Podcast by Katharine Strange

April 1, 2026 · 6 min · Season 3 · Episode 13

About this episode

The episode explores the significance of Easter for those who doubt or question the resurrection within Christianity.

It’s Holy Week for many of the world’s 2.6 billion Christians (for Eastern Orthodox, it’s next week.) Easter marks the most important holiday in the Christian calendar—the date of Jesus’ alleged resurrection. But what if you don’t believe? Or if you have major questions about it? Does Easter still matter? Can this holiday still be meaningful if you’re not sure about the whole bodily resurrection thing? Fifteen years ago, I would’ve said, absolutely not. If you don’t believe in the resurrection, there’s no point and you’re not in the club!!! For those of us who were raised to read the Bible literally, questioning the resurrection is dangerous territory. In these traditions, miracles are proof of God’s existence, the very cornerstone of faith—if you don’t believe in them, everything else falls apart. In this black-and-white worldview, any speck of doubt can put you on the path to Hell. Heretic Hereafter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I spent years trying to convince myself to believe Bible stories were factually true, even as scientific evidence and my own lived experience contradicted this…

People in this episode

Host: Katharine Strange

Topics covered

  • Easter
  • doubt
  • skepticism
  • Christianity
  • resurrection
  • faith
  • miracles

Keywords

  • Easter
  • doubt
  • Christianity
  • resurrection
  • faith
  • miracles
  • skepticism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Heretic Hereafter, Bible, evolution

Places: Holy Week, Eastern Orthodox

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