What does the Easter Bunny have to do with Jesus?

Curiously Kaitlyn

Phil Vischer

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How did colorful eggs, chocolate bunnies, and mountains of candy become part of celebrating Jesus’ death and resurrection? Kaitlyn explores the surprising origins of the Easter Bunny and its traditions, and why Christians feel the need to baptize non-christian things by making up a Christian connection or a Christian origin. Should we join in on the Easter Bunny fun, or is this a tradition we should hop away from altogether?

0:50 - Theme Song

1:16 - Kids Try to Explain the Easter Bunny

2:20 - The Church Calendar

6:20 - Christian Symbolism and Eggs

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12:50 - Baptizing Cultural Ideas

15:15 - Don’t Rush Past Good Friday!

19:35 - End Credits

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Curiously, Caitlin, where we usually take a kid question about God, theology, or the Bible, and find a scholar to answer it.
0:08.5	This week, we are continuing our series of episodes we're calling, kids say the most heretical things, where we flip the script and begin not with kid questions, but with kid answers.
0:19.1	I believe we have much to learn from kids in the church,
0:21.8	both from their big questions and from their answers, because their answers often tell us
0:26.5	something about what they have picked up from their experience in church, from the things
0:31.1	their parents or their grown-ups say, and we can learn a lot from what they have to tell
0:35.3	us. They have insightful things to say. They have funny
0:37.7	things to say. And even where they might not get things quite right, we have a lot we can learn
0:43.1	about why we believe what we believe.
0:47.6	I don't know. That doesn't make any sense.
0:54.0	What? Curiously. Okay. Yeah. That doesn't make any sense. This week we are also continuing our series on Lent and Easter.
1:05.0	We've covered Ash Wednesday.
1:07.0	We've talked about what Lent even is.
1:09.3	And this week we are tackling a very different kind of question.
1:13.4	What is up with the Easter bunny and Easter eggs?
1:16.9	What do you think the Easter bunny is?
1:19.4	I think it's a bunny.
1:22.1	He brings toys to us.
1:25.2	Brings chocolate eggs around in.
1:27.4	It hides all sorts of Easter eggs,
1:30.3	and they have chocolate in them.
1:33.3	God wired the Easter burn to bring joy.
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