Churches so often spend weeks preparing for Easter by placing great emphasis upon the Lenten season. But after Easter is over, the programming goes quickly on to other unrelated things. There’s not usually a correspondingly strong emphasis on the traditional Easter season which lasts from Easter Sunday to Pentecost.

Andrew Walker in his book, Journey into Joy, objects to this practice. He suggests that in analogy to the stations of the crass often used to celebrate Lent, we should observe stations of the resurrection! His short devotional book devoted to this theme is organized into chapters called stations of the resurrection. Most chapters focus on one passage of Scripture that describes an appearance of Christ after the resurrection. This is in the spirit of the apostles’ teaching as they were very careful to account for the appearances of Christ and to pass on that information. This practice is illustrated by the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8.