There was certainly nothing trivial about the events of that first Easter Sunday, but that hasn’t stopped magazines from cranking out baskets of Easter trivia year after year.

Admittedly, magazine writers are trapped on a hamster wheel of producing seasonal material. (“See the latest table settings for National Fasting Week!”)

The widening divide between the sacred and secular aspects of Easter apparently requires some dumbing down of the tidbits. “Woman’sDay” magazine thought it necessary to note that there’s no mention of an Easter Bunny in the Bible (although the bunnies WO...