Happy Easter

It’s finally come!  The long days of no chocolate/beer/facebook are over and the days of celebration are here.

You may have seen this week in the Guardian, this article about the historical reliability of the Easter story.  We can have great confidence in what we believe – the miracle of Easter.

In the article, Simon Gathercole concludes,

These abundant historical references leave us with little reasonable doubt that Jesus lived and died. The more interesting question – which goes beyond history and objective fact – is whether Jesus died and lived.

In other news, we have today published the first of our new, as yet untitled, newsletters.  You can download Issue 1 here.  We’re running a competition to choose a name for this quarterly publication.  Any ideas to the Church Office.