Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to sail around the world. Upon his return, not everyone believed him — including some powerful bishops and cardinals.

Magellan did not allow the skeptics to deter him. Some say he replied with something like this: “The church says the earth is flat, but I know it is round. I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.” So speaks that voice of experience.

If that’s what Magellan actually said, then it’s likely the “shadow on the moon” was his watershed experience, one he threw back at those who doubted his word.

What is your shadow on the moon — your experience of the risen Christ?