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In the Bible, the Saturday of Holy Week – our Easter Saturday – is a moment of stillness between two days of the worst and the best kind of activity....

Father, into your hands I commit my spirit (Luke 23:46) We read in Luke’s Gospel that on the cross Jesus ‘called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands...

It is finished (John 19:30) There’s something satisfying about completing something. Whether it’s decorating the bedroom, writing a report for the office or reading a book, it’s a good moment...

I am thirsty (John 19:28) The fifth saying is brief: ‘I am thirsty.’ At one level, this is no more than a desperate, agonised cry of suffering. We hear a...

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34) The fourth statement from the cross is both deep and terrible. Mark puts it in its...

Dear woman, here is your son... here is your mother (John 19:26-27) The Gospels tell us that Jesus’ mother and a number of the women who had followed him remained...

I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43) It is a universal feature of human societies that there are hierarchies. There are always...

Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34) There are many ways of thinking about Easter. One with a long tradition is to consider...

At the heart of April Fools’ Day is misplaced trust: we believe some news story or a friend’s tale and so are surprised when what we believed to be true...

To me Mothering Sunday increasingly seems to focus on mothers in a way that is, as far as cards go, soft and sentimental. There’s nothing wrong with this but there...

Part of my role as an evangelist is to keep an eye on the world. After all, if you want to reach people, it’s helpful to know where to find...

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the start of the forty-day period that leads to Easter. Ash Wednesday takes its name from the way that, for over a thousand years, many believers...