Savannah Guthrie says ‘I still believe’ in emotional Easter message amid Nancy Guthrie's disappearance

This Easter is different for the Guthries. Savannah Guthrie, the lawyer-turned-journalist, who is still awaiting her mom, Nancy Guthrie’s return, stood before her church on Easter and gave a message that felt raw and honest.

She's grieving, she's searching, and she's waiting for answers in the middle of her mother Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. However, she opened up like never before while speaking during a church service on April 5. In a deeply personal and emotional Easter message, Savannah shared her grief, faith, and uncertainty as the search for her missing mother continues. The Today co-anchor delivered a message that was both heartbreaking and hopeful, ending with a quiet but powerful declaration: “I still believe.”

Savannah Guthrie’s Easter message: What she said

For the unversed, Savannah Guthrie is one of America’s most prominent broadcast journalists and the main co-anchor of the Today show since 2012. However, in the last couple of months, since her mother Nancy Guthrie’s sudden disappearance, she has found herself at the center of a deeply personal story.While speaking during the Church service on Easter Sunday, Savannah didn’t sugarcoat anything. Per NBC News, she talked about her faith being shaken, about feeling “deep disappointment,” and wondering if God really understands what it means to not know what happened to someone you love.

She called it “a uniquely cruel injury,” that endless uncertainty. But even with all the anguish, she landed on hope. “I still believe,” she said.

That simple phrase hit hard. It wasn’t loud, but it carried weight, especially now, with her mother missing and the whole country watching.Two months have passed since Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared from her home near Tucson, Arizona. The search has been massive, and the worry is everywhere.

Savannah’s words at Good Shepherd New York church were honest: “I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and Earth pass away because they are one, on Earth as it is in heaven. When we celebrate today, this is what we celebrate, and I celebrate, too. I still believe. And so I say with conviction, 'Happy Easter.

'”Savannah spoke about the Christian belief in resurrection, but also about those moments where faith feels thin, when you feel abandoned or disappointed.

“Recently, though, in my own season of trial, I have wondered, I have questioned whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel," she admitted. "This grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld.

"Savannah didn’t hide from the darkness. “In those darkest moments, I have thought bitterly, and perhaps irreverently, that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know."

Savannah insisted it’s okay to challenge God with questions. That’s where revelation, truth, and wisdom sometimes come from. For believers, there’s comfort in knowing their God understands human pain firsthand.“Maybe this is too dark a message for Easter morning,” she said, “but I’ve always believed we miss out on fully celebrating resurrection if we don’t acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death.

It’s the darkness that makes the morning’s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful.” She closed her eyes and felt the sunshine, letting that moment speak for itself.Notably, Savannah’s message came just before she returned to the TODAY show. She told Hoda Kotb in a recent interview (as per the same outlet) that coming back feels like part of her purpose. “I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not,” she said.

“But I can’t come back because it’s my family. I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. I would like to try.”

What happened to Nancy Guthrie?

Per AP News, Nancy Guthrie disappeared on the night of January 31, 2026, from her home just outside Tucson, Arizona. The next day, when she didn’t show up for her usual church service, her family started to worry and went to check on her. They found her house empty, but a few things just didn’t make sense.

Nancy’s phone and other personal things were still there. There were bloodstains close to the front door. The home’s surveillance camera captured a masked person lurking around the property, and someone had even pulled the doorbell camera off its mount.Police didn’t waste time, as they suspected right away that Nancy hadn’t left on her own. From the start, they treated this as an abduction, not just someone vanishing.

The case quickly grew into a major investigation. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, the FBI, and teams of search-and-rescue specialists got involved.Even with drones sweeping the area, searching nearby neighborhoods, and bringing in forensic experts, nobody has found any solid clue about where Nancy went. The developments so far read like something out of a crime novel. There have been ransom demands, with multiple notes asking for cryptocurrency, though nobody seems sure if they’re for real.So far, police haven’t received any clear proof that Nancy’s still alive. The only suspect in sight is the armed, masked figure caught on camera near her house that night.Both her family and the FBI are desperate to find her. The FBI put up a USD 100,000 reward, and her family raised it with another USD 1 million for anyone who can bring them answers.