Alleluia, the Lord is risen!  He is truly risen, alleluia!  May he who loved us to the end and served us by his death now bring you to the fullness of life by love and service of God and neighbour, alleluia! The bright glory of this day is undimmed by anything whatsoever.  This is the Lord’s day.  And so, with love and concern, our minds will still be on the world’s sad events.  We’re aware that there are hot spots around the world at the best of times.  But it does seem that more and more...

An ambitious apostle took matters into his own hands, and chief priests bought the Saviour’s silence.  Other apostles slept off the Passover wine, or fled at the prospect of guilt by association, or both.  The arrest was made on no charge whatever, and trials were conducted by a corrupted council and a foreign despot, followed by cheers of a riotous crowd at the capital sentence pronounced on the innocent.  There seems to have been no end to the wrongs done to the Lord. In the last hours of...

What’s missing from the complement of signs of Jesus?  Now that we’ve heard the last of them, the raising of Lazarus, what comes next? Jesus called his miracles “signs”, so that they point on to something ordinarily beyond our grasp.  All his signs overcame some natural impossibility: The lack of wine at Cana The mortal illness of the courtier’s son The disability of the man at Bethesda The hunger of the 5,000 in the wilderness The properties of the Lake's water The disability of the man born...