I love it when the clocks go forward. After the long dark nights of winter, the days have already been getting longer for a while. It’s no longer already dark when I leave work, or when I arrive in the morning. And then with the changing clocks, we take a collective step forward. Boom! An […]
On Sunday, you may have noticed I wished you a Happy Resurrection Day rather than a Happy Easter. It seems that I’m not the only one who prefers to refer to our saviour’s resurrection than a pagan fertility festival. I’d been planning to make exactly the same point as Ted Slater does in his blog […]
Christ is risen! What amazing news. How easily Christians get used to the idea that a man came back from the dead; how easily that idea becomes just a bit of cultural background noise, rather than a shocking, incredible claim. Knowing that Jesus was resurrected transforms our understanding of the nature of the universe we […]
Good Friday – what’s it mean? Today’s the day when we remember that momentous event, when Jesus Christ died on a cross to take the sins of the world. I’ve seen some debates on places like Ship of Fools, and in the wake of Steve Chalke’s controversial comments, about what did Jesus’ death (and resurrection) […]
