Challenge Literature Fellowship - AustraliaWe know well in advance that Easter is on the way by all the Easter eggs and hot cross buns that the shops start selling around Valentine’s Day. The swiftness with which the year marches towards the holiday may take us by surprise but the long weekend certainly doesn’t.
However, nearly two thousand years ago that first Easter morning came as a complete surprise to those who had watched Jesus arrested, tried and crucified.
Continue readingLet us imagine that this Christmas a Covid vaccine was released that was not only free but that those that took it said was 100% effective and lasted your whole lifetime. If you took it, you would never test positive and you would never sicken or die of Covid-19. You might get a few symptoms – a cough or a bit of chest pain – but you would never get the disease.
Would you take it?Continue reading
With the world melting down over Covid-19 and multiple countries in lockdown, people losing their jobs and memes about social isolation abounding, there is one aspect of this whole situation that I find both encouraging and very interesting, and which has not been pointed out in all the many stories, graphs and vlogs I’ve seen.Continue reading
On TV recently was a show where a family, who live in a chateau in France, celebrated Christmas in the most elaborate and beautiful way. Homemade decorations, sumptuous food, loving extended family, huge sacks full of presents and lots of laughter and candlelight. It looked idyllic.
And yet, I wondered if, when they were washing up the dishes in the cold light of day with a food hangover the next morning, whether they thought, “What was the point? Why did we do it?”Continue reading