A World Without Easter
In the summer of 2022 I visited the charming Alpine town of Oberammergau, Germany. I wandered its leafy streets lined with mural-painted houses, their balconies overflowing with flower boxes. After indulging in ice cream and shopping for the town’s famed woodcarvings, I settled in my theater seat for a five-and-a-half-hour performance of Jesus’ final week on earth. Since 1634, Oberammergau has put on a passion play involving almost all its residents, first staged in thanksgiving for the end of the ...