“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie used an Easter message to reflect on faith, doubt and uncertainty as her mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing after 63 days.

The message was shared by Good Shepherd New York during its digital Easter gathering on YouTube, where Guthrie delivered a deeply reflective message about navigating grief and unanswered questions during what she described as a difficult season.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen after she was believed to have been taken from her bedroom in northern Tucson, Arizona, around 2 a.m. on Feb. 1. Responding officers found a thin trail of blood droplets leading from the front door to the edge of the driveway. Her back doors were propped open, and a doorbell camera was missing.

Investigators later recovered home security footage showing a masked man on the doorstep, who has not been identified. The trail of evidence appeared to end at the driveway, and her whereabouts remain unknown.

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Guthrie acknowledged that Easter’s promise of hope and new life can feel distant as she faces the uncertainty surrounding her mother’s disappearance.

“There are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away, when life itself seems far harder than death,” Guthrie said. “These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment.”

Guthrie said that in her recent “season of trial,” she questioned whether Jesus experienced the same kind of uncertainty she now feels, particularly the pain of not knowing what comes next or why suffering is unfolding.

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“I have wondered – I have questioned – whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel, this grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld,” she said. “In those darkest moments I have thought, bitterly and perhaps irreverently, that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know.”

She said her perspective began to shift as she reflected on the period between the crucifixion and resurrection, a span she described as often overlooked but central to understanding faith in moments of uncertainty.

“After Jesus died, after he breathed his last, what did he actually know?” Guthrie said. “Did he think his time in the grave would be a day or two or a thousand years? In the grave, does his agony seem indefinite to him? That torment of uncertainty? The way indefinite pain can feel eternal? Perhaps he did know this feeling after all.”

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Guthrie said that realization helped her reframe her own experience, describing life as existing in a kind of “meantime” — a period marked by waiting, unanswered questions and the absence of clear resolution.

She said that in those moments, people can feel unsure, lost, abandoned, disappointed and forgotten, even as faith calls them to trust in a future they cannot yet see.

Despite that struggle, Guthrie said her faith remains rooted in the belief that God is present even without immediate answers, offering comfort not through certainty, but through presence.

“It is the darkness that makes this morning’s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful,” Guthrie said. “It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed.”

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“So I close my eyes this morning and I feel the sunshine,” she continued. “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,” she said. “I still believe. And so I say with conviction, happy Easter.”

Savannah Guthrie held back tears as she described her ‘deep disappointment with God’ on the first Easter without her beloved mother Nancy by her side. 

The Today Show host, who recently made her way back to New York City after more than two months without any indication of where her missing 84-year-old mother is, delivered a personal message on Sunday morning. 

During the holiday mass at her church, Good Shepard New York, Savannah shared what this day means for her, as Nancy has yet to be seen or heard from since her mysterious disappearance from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1. 

After speaking about what Easter is all about, including family time and Spring cheer, Savannah said it’s been challenging for her to navigate the day. 

‘We celebrate today the promise of a new life that never ends in death. But, standing here today, I have to tell you, there are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away,’ she said as her voice trembled. 

‘When life itself seems far harder than death. These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment. 

‘For most of us, there will come a time in our lives when these feelings hold sway. In our tradition, we are taught to take comfort in the fact that our friend, Jesus, in his short life, experienced every single emotion that we humans can feel. 

‘That his taking on the form of humanity made him not a distant observer to our pain, but a hands-on experiencer of it. Recently, though, in my own season of trial, I have wondered, I have questioned whether Jesus ever experienced this particular wound that I feel,’ Savannah shared, referring to the ‘grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not known’ she is enduring. 

Since her mother vanished, there have been a series of blackmail messages sent to the family and to media outlets demanding money in bitcoin in return for Nancy. 

None of the ransoms were ever paid as the Guthrie family demanded that they proof of life, but never got it. 

Authorities and the family also could not verify the authenticity of the ransom notes, despite their willingness to pay. 

Over the course of the investigation, only a few people have been taken in for questioning. No one has been arrested. 

Various pieces of evidence have also been found at the home and in the surrounding area, including drops of blood on Nancy’s front porch, a torn-down doorbell camera, and various gloves. 

Surveillance footage also captured a masked person outside her front door, appearing to tamper with the doorbell camera before it was snatched off. 

Nearly two weeks ago, Savannah revealed she will return to anchoring the Today Show on Monday, April 6, but warned her comeback might be short-lived because of her mother’s abduction. 

In a tearful interview with her NBC colleague Hoda Kotb, Savannah said of her Today colleagues: ‘I have been so grateful to have this family.

‘I consider this my family, my greater family, and when times are hard, you want to be with your family and I want to be with my family,’ she said.

‘I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore but I would like to try.’ 

She’s been off-screen since the horrible news broke,  and suggested she is a fundamentally different person from the one last seen hosting from Studio One at NYC’s Rockefeller Center.

‘I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now,’ she told Kotb in the portion of the interview that aired Friday.

‘I want to smile, and when I do, it will be real. My joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer. And being there is joyful.

‘And when it’s not, I’ll say so.’

Savannah, in her interview with Kotb, also suggested that she could forgive Nancy’s kidnapper if they come forward.

‘We need an answer and someone has it in their power to help,’ she said, before directly addressing her mother’s abductor and potential witnesses.

‘It is never too late and when you do, the warmth of love and forgiveness, that will come, will be greater than can be imagined.

‘I know what it is to be forgiven. And there is no greater joy. And that joy awaits whoever can hear this and find it in their heart to help.’

The Today show co-host further shared how her Christian faith has kept her connected to her mom and helped her survive the horrific nightmare.

‘God doesn’t tell us not to wrestle with him. This isn’t some cheap faith and my mom taught me that. God only requires our authentic presence, and that he has,’ she said.

Savannah said she ‘never doubted’ God despite the pain that her family was enduring.

‘Faith is how I will stay connected to my mom. God is how I’m holding hands with my mom. And I won’t let sadness win.’

As the search for Nancy Guthrie stretches past 50 days with no answers, one woman who has spent more than two decades searching for her own missing sister says this is the moment families fear most – when urgency begins to fade and the fight for answers becomes even harder.

Julie Murray, whose sister Maura Murray vanished in New Hampshire in 2004, said what the Guthrie family is experiencing right now is something she recognizes immediately.

“What they’re going through is something you never forget,” Murray said. “You can see it on their faces. You can hear the desperation in their voices.”

Murray said cases often begin with an intense surge of attention, resources, media coverage and public engagement, but that momentum can fade, leaving families to carry the burden.

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“Most families… have to fight to be heard and beg for that level of attention,” she said. “And some families don’t get any at all.”

That attention, she emphasized, can be lifesaving.

“Media pressure saves lives.”

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Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen Feb. 1 after being dropped off at her Tucson, Arizona home. Authorities believe she was taken against her will in the early morning hours.

Surveillance video captured a masked man, described as average height and build, approaching her home carrying a black backpack and what appeared to be a handgun. Investigators say Guthrie’s phone and watch were later recovered inside the home, while her pacemaker last synced with her Apple devices around 2:30 a.m., helping establish a possible timeline.

Despite weeks of investigation, authorities have not announced a suspect. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said Guthrie was likely targeted.

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The case has drawn national attention, driven in part by emotional public appeals from Guthrie’s daughter, NBC “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie.

“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony,” Guthrie said in a preview of her first formal interview since her mother’s disappearance.

In the same interview, she described the toll the uncertainty has taken.

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“I wake up every night in the middle of the night… and in the darkness, I imagine her terror,” she said. “She needs to come home now.”

Authorities are urging anyone with information to contact the FBI tip line.

Murray said the level of attention surrounding the Guthrie case can generate a surge of tips, but not all are actionable.

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“You’re begging the public for information, but at the same time you’re getting speculation and hearsay,” she said. “Some of those tips you just can’t chase down.”

Her family, she said, still receives tips more than 20 years after her sister vanished, none of which have led to answers.

Each one, however, carries emotional weight.

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“I call it the hope roller coaster,” Murray said. “You want it to be the one that breaks the case open… and then it doesn’t.”

Retired LAPD Detective Moses Castillo said that emotional toll is already visible in the Guthrie family’s public appeals.

“You can feel every ounce of her pain, her strength, and her desperation,” Castillo said. “That kind of resolve matters. It moves people. It forces attention.”

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He described Savannah Guthrie’s interview as “a call to action” that could help generate new leads.

Murray warned that one of the most difficult turning points in a case comes when investigators exhaust immediate leads.

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For Murray’s family, that moment came just weeks after Maura disappeared.

“The worst day wasn’t the day she went missing,” she said. “It was the day we were told they had done all they could.”

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From that point forward, she said, the responsibility shifted to the family to keep pushing for answers—through media coverage, public pressure and independent efforts.

“You can’t let up on the pressure,” she said.

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Investigators have said the Guthrie case remains active, but have also warned the public not to assume there is no ongoing threat.

Families also face growing challenges as cases gain visibility, including online speculation and bad actors.

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“Trust becomes a casualty,” Murray said, warning that some individuals attempt to exploit high-profile cases or spread misinformation.

More than two decades later, Murray said her family has come to terms with the likelihood that her sister is no longer alive—but they are still searching for answers.

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“There’s no such thing as closure,” she said. “It’s resolution.”

For families like the Guthries, that means continuing to push for answers, while hoping the right tip finally comes in.

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Authorities are asking anyone with information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance to contact the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI. A combined reward of more than $1 million is being offered for information leading to her return.

Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood, Hanna Panreck and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.  

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send story tips to stepheny.price@fox.com.

The Guthrie family is clinging to hope that someone in the Arizona community where their missing 84-year-old mother lived has critical information about her abduction, they said in a heartbreaking statement.

Nancy Guthrie’s three children expressed their gratitude to residents of Tucson for their support in a statement to KVOA on Saturday, but urged renewed focus on the case as the search for the missing mother enters its seventh week.

“We continue to believe it is Tucsonans, and the greater southern Arizona community, that hold the key to finding resolution in this case,” the statement said.

“Someone knows something. It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11.

“We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case – please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance,” they added.

“No detail is too small. It may be the key.”

The heartbroken family said they miss their mother deeply and won’t find peace until she is home.

“We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder,” they said.

“Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home. We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life. But we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest.

Nancy, mother of “Today” show star Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home during the early hours of Feb. 1.

She was reported missing after she failed to show up at church, and security footage recovered from her doorbell camera captured a masked man loitering around doorstep the night police believe she was kidnapped.

Police have still not identified any suspects.

Investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie are reportedly zeroing in on evidence from two specific dates in the days before she vanished – suggesting her kidnappers may have been casing out her Arizona home for weeks before the crime.

The FBI has been asking the 84-year-old’s Tucson neighbors for any home security footage that may have from Jan. 11 and Jan. 24, NewNation’s Brian Entin reported.

Agents were adamant about those dates as spoke with neighbors about the disappearance, and even watched over shoulders as the neighbors scanned through their archives for the footage, according to Entin.

Nancy vanished from her home on Feb. 1 – with investigators’ interest in Jan. 11 and 24 suggesting her captors may have been in the neighborhood at least twice before the kidnapping.

The news also suggests that the FBI is retracing the steps of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, which is accused of botching the investigation.

“Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie is “livid” over early claims her brother-in-law was a prime suspect in her mom Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, according to her former NBC colleague Megyn Kelly.

The conservative firebrand said she had learned Guthrie was left fuming after fellow journalist, Ashleigh Banfield, had alleged the brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, was somehow tied to the Feb.1 kidnapping in Tucson, Ariz.

Kelly dropped the revelation amid reports Guthrie is planning to sue Banfield over the false allegation — and especially since the Pima County Sheriff’s Office publicly cleared the family of having any involvement.

“I have not been able to confirm that the Guthrie family wants to sue Ashleigh Banfield, but I have confirmed that Savannah is livid about that report and definitely does not suspect her or her brother-in-law,” Kelly said during an episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show late last week.

“Can you blame her? I mean, of course, she loves her sister, I’m sure she loves her brother-in-law, and I’m sure she genuinely doesn’t believe they had anything to do with it.”

Cioni and his wife Annie Guthrie were the last known people to see Nancy after having dinner with her the night before she vanished, according to investigators.

Just days after her disappearance, Banfield went on air citing a single law enforcement source who said Cioni was possibly being eyed as a suspect.

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Banfield later doubled down on her reporting — even after Sheriff Chris Nanos insisted there were no persons of interest in the case.

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s actions in Iran were a method of distraction to keep public attention off the Jeffrey Epstein files and the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

The co-hosts discussed the latest in the war with Iran, particularly the surge in oil prices and gas prices.

“It’s nutty as hell,” Goldberg said. “And you’re right, every day it’s something new. And it’s, you know, I was thinking about it yesterday, because I thought, ‘Well, OK, why haven’t we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what’s going on there? Why haven’t we — why have we not been talking about the Epstein files?’ Because that’s still there.

“This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.”

The co-hosts seemed to agree, with Sunny Hostin adding, “It’s a very ‘wag the dog’ feeling.”

Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for over 30 days.

The elder Guthrie is believed to have been kidnapped from her home in the Catalina Foothills in northern Tucson around 2:30 a.m. Feb. 1.

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Goldberg compared living in the U.S. to living in Iran in June despite co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pushing back and pointing out how the Iranian regime has treated women.

Griffin said, “In the year 2025 in the United States is nothing like if I step foot wearing this outfit into Iran right now.”

“It is the same,” Goldberg said. “Murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does it.”

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Griffin reiterated her point and repeated that living in the U.S. in 2025 was “very different” than living in Iran.

“Not if you’re Black,” Goldberg insisted, and Hostin added, “not for everybody.”

Goldberg said Monday that Trump was sending Americans to war to “lose their lives.”

“Basically, we are sending people in to lose their lives,” she warned. “Because we have seen how fighting goes. We knew we shouldn’t have gone into Afghanistan. We knew that, and they decided to do it anyway.

“So, now we are in the same position where someone who doesn’t seem to care that human beings are being sent to war and people’s sons and daughters. His kids aren’t going,” Goldberg said, referring to Trump.

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Investigators in Nancy Guthrie’s case have turned their attention toward a pinky ring that they believe her alleged abductor was wearing in the chilling doorbell camera footage taken before she vanished.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said on Tuesday that the unknown male suspect seen on the porch of her Tucson, Arizona home appeared to be wearing a ring under his black gloves.

‘I look at the same photo you look at and I get it, I see it,’ Nanos told NBC News, referring to the mysterious figure who was seen in the clip. 

‘I’m going to give that to my team. They’ll look at that. They’ll analyze it and we’ll see. Maybe, maybe it is.’

Meanwhile TMZ announced on Wednesday that it has received a new ‘sophisticated’ ransom note in connection to missing Nancy, who is the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie.

It comes as the search for the 84-year-old enters its 17th day, with still no sign of a suspect or person of interest.

‘We have received yet another ransom demand—this one is sophisticated and puts the media right in the middle of it,’ TMZ wrote in an Instagram post. 

The latest letter demands another large amount of money, but in another cryptocurrency form other than the previously requested $6 million in bitcoin, per the outlet. 

The email also ‘graphically describes the consequences if the ransom isn’t paid,’ the report stated. 

The message included a cryptocurrency account number which differs from one that was originally sent in previous ransom demands.

The outlet also revealed that the FBI has contacted law enforcement in Mexico, though the expansion of the investigation has not yielded any new leads. 

The latest update in the mysterious investigation comes after a similar glove found two miles from Nancy’s home failed to match DNA found inside of her property, officials said. 

Nanos said the glove offered no new leads after failing to match the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) – a national archive of all DNA from arrestees nationwide.

The singular glove was discovered on Sunday and became a briefly regarded piece of evidence in the ongoing case.

Several leads and pieces of evidence have popped up along the way, but none of them have stuck. 

Persons of interest were previously taken in for questioning, but later released. A number of ransom notes, including several sent to TMZ, have also been revealed. 

Nancy was last seen on the night of January 31 after going to her eldest daughter’s house for dinner and a game night. 

Her daughter Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni, then drove her back home, just a few miles away. 

Cioni told police he watched his mother-in-law enter her garage door that night. 

Hours later, around 2.12am, Nancy’s Nest doorbell camera detected a person on camera. 

Around 2.30am Nancy’s Apple Watch and iPhone stopped syncing with her pacemaker. 

She was reported missing at around 11am after local church friends grew worried after Nancy failed to show up for services.

They then notified her family, leading her relatives to check on her home. 

After not locating her, the family dialed 911 and reported her missing. She has not been seen or heard from since. 

Her heartbroken children have taken to social media multiple times pleading for their mother’s safe return home. 

On Sunday night, Savannah shared a somber video to Instagram, begging her mother’s captors to ‘do the right thing’.

‘And I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is that it’s never too late, and you’re not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing,’ the Today Show host said. 

‘We are here and we believe, and we believe in the essential goodness of every human being, and it’s never too late,’ she concluded the video, which she captioned ‘bring her home’.