Easter.
It pops up in a seemingly random Sunday each year, easing you gently into spring. The promise of candy and chocolate eggs makes it popular with kids, but it’s hardly in the same league as holidays like Christmas.
... But perhaps it should be?
Here are 12 weird and wonderful facts, spanning all the way from its origins through to the present day, that show the enduring significance of Easter for Christians.
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“The friends set off, the traveller walking with them on the way.
They walked and talked and talked and walked throughout the ebbing day.”
Winding along the road to Emmaus, two friends meet a traveller who opens their eyes to a life-changing discovery. Join them on the road as the joy of the first Easter dawns.
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The book of Lamentations is not a well-trodden part of the Bible. Yet dwelling in its bleak shadows, we find surprising treasure. For broken people in a broken world, Lamentations’ aching sorrow is strangely refreshing.
This 40 day devotional contains daily reflections and responses which take us on a journey from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday.
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