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  • 21 May 2011
    Kirk invites public to 'Roll Away the Stone'

    A cultural event sponsored by the Church of Scotland and taking place on 'Assembly Sunday' — May 22nd, 2011 — will seek to illustrate the connections between the Kirk, Scottish Christianity and the life of the wider community.

  • 28 Apr 2011
    Armenia: from victims to victors?

    With Easter Sunday this year coinciding for the first time with the memorial day for the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Harry Hagopian explores a painful history and asks how, in the present and future, those who inherit the mantle of the victims can move forward to discover new life.

  • 25 Apr 2011
    Easter and Anzac: Worshipping the gods of war

    If you're not convinced that Anzac Day in New Zealand bears the hallmarks of fundamentalist religious belief, try questioning anything about the state's most holy day and feel the vitriolic reaction, says Sande Ramage, exploring the myths around Easter and Anzac, which coincide in 2011.

  • 24 Apr 2011
    Mysterious stranger, risen Christ

    Through the Gospel of resurrection, says Savi Hensman, God is not just a remote ruler, but intimately present, able to empower the despairing and defeated so that they can play their part in transforming the world.

  • 24 Apr 2011
    Archbishop says Easter Day is a 'great festival of human life'

    In his Easter Sunday homily, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, has encouraged people to celebrate life while tackling injustice and death.

  • 22 Apr 2011
    Cross and resurrection through a poet's eyes

    Christians agree that the death and resurrection of Jesus is central to their faith. But as soon as we try to understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’, it becomes much more difficult to articulate this belief. Alison Goodlad suggests that the evocation of poet R. S. Thomas is among the imaginative resources that construe meaning with vitality, while 'leaving the reason torn'.

  • 5 Apr 2010
    Remember Jesus came from the Middle East, not the West

    This text and podcast is the first of five reflective radio talks for Easter from Harry Hagopian, focusing on the presence, life and witness of the often-forgotten historic Christian communities across the Middle East. The first coming of Jesus occurred in Nazareth, Bethlehem and Jerusalem - not in London or elsewhere in the world - we are reminded today.

  • 2 Apr 2010
    Good Friday: travelling towards hope

    The seventh and final installment in a series of 2010 Lent and Holy Week blogs from Willard Roth focusing on places of particular spiritual intensity and interest across Britain and Ireland.

  • 2 Apr 2010
    Calls renewed for a common annual date for Easter

    Ecumenical leaders are renewing their call for a common annual date for the Easter celebration of the life-giving triumph of God in Christ over destruction and death.

  • 1 Apr 2010
    Winning out over over distortion and violence

    Back in 2000 I was honoured to be part of a British and Irish churches' team supporting an interreligious peace delegation from Sri Lanka on a visit to build solidarity links here. One of the participants was Duleep de Chickera, now Anglican Bishop of Colombo. A remarkable man, his 2010 Easter message of hope has a resonance both within and beyond the particular tragedies of Sri Lanka.