by Sean Reilly | Mar 24, 2008
The celebration of Easter challenges human beings to accept death without delusion, but it also seeks to challenge our acceptance that death is without hope and the end to all meaning, says the Archbishop of Canterbury. In his Easter Sermon delivered at 10.30am at...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 22, 2008
Somewhere in the Middle East, Jesus Christ is strapped to a bench, his head wrapped in clingfilm. He furiously sucks against the plastic. A hole is pierced, but only so that a filthy rag can be stuffed back into his mouth. He is turned upside down and water slowly...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Today’s world “lives with death and resurrection in many ways and in many places”, says the president of the Methodist Conference in Britain. The duty of the church is to be with them in this and to point to the hope of the gospel. “An...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
As death continues to do its worst we find ourselves living in a ‘long Saturday’, suspended irresolvably, it seems, between the threat of despair and the possibility of hope. The former looks substantial and unavoidable. But what of the latter? By its nature, hope is...
