Whether you believe in this resurrection as a physical fact or as a narrative truth, the point is simply this: As J. K. Rowling knew in choosing the gravestone inscription for Harry’s parents in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (“the last enemy to be destroyed is death” [1 Cor. 15:26]), in the story of Jesus that we Christians abide within, death has been conquered, and our understandable obsession with what seems to be the end of our lives can be set aside.
