On the way down the hill today I saw my neighbor. She appeared to be talking to herself, but the little white sticks protruding from her ears gave it away. Singing along with her Ipod, she was, and had I called out, she wouldn’t have heard. So I waved. And she smiled. When Apple released the first Ipod in 2001, it was what they call a gamechanger. Other companies had launched portable music players (I still have my old Sony Walkman, player of cassette tapes, as well as a working Ipod 2nd Gen) but Apple’s product was sleeker, cleaner, and it had a music platform (Itunes) that revolutionized how music would be distributed going forward. That’s what gamechangers do — people, events, or devices that change the trajectory of history. They are disruptive. Sometimes they are crazy. But if they’re successful, they can be radically lucrative, and things are never the same afterward. Some people say agriculture was the greatest gamechanger in human history; some would argue for the industrial revolution. Henry Ford, inventor of interchangable parts, Sputnik, microcircuits, fire — all worthy candidates. But there is one event, and one person, that in all of human history bent the trajectory of destiny in a way that has never, ever been equaled — nor will be. That person is Jesus, and the event is the Resurrection. The Resurrection of Jesus gives meaning to every human hope and validates every promise of God. Resurrection is the hinge of history, and on account of it, things will never be the same again, ever. Death will no more have the last word. People will no longer be consigned to oblivion. Evil is now permanently disrupted. And joy is real. We live in the new eon now, and there’s no going back. Who’d want to? — “But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” 1 Corinthains 15:20