“In his darkest days, Jesus was surrounded by women, and at that first moment of resurrection, that first break of daylight… Jesus chose to introduce the new kingdom to women, the ones who stuck by him through death. If you stick with someone through death, even when there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, that’s when you see resurrection. When you show up with the burial spices… that’s when it happens.

”Click here to watch a short partial clip of “The Partier.”

–Rachel Held Evans