Tag: Easter
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The Significance of Ascension Day
Hi All This month we celebrate Ascension Day. It is one of the lesser celebrated parts of the Christian calendar. Whilst at theological college we used to process from college, through a local wood to a hill top, there to remember the Ascension of Christ. Whilst serving as a school governor in Wigan, we had…
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The Feast of the Unexpected
This reflection by Rev. Carolyn Lawrance was originally published in the April, 2014 Monthly Letter Dear Friends, Easter is “the feast of the unexpected”. John Pritchard, an Anglican bishop, has written that “Christ arrives from death without warning and without permission. He disturbs every attempt to make God predictable and religion safe”. The religious leaders…