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Each day from Palm Sunday (13 April), we're releasing an Easter-related article on the Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast.
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Palm Sunday: When creation and justice converge
In a world of climate catastrophe, what does the message of Easter have to offer? N.T. Wright contemplates the hope of a new heaven and a new earth.
Monday. Beyond pancakes and chocolate: a sensory guide to Lent and Easter
It’s a time to discover the whole range of human experience and emotion at Easter, writes Lianne Howard-Dace.
Tuesday. Pilate: a lord of misrule
Agents of chaos still inhabit our world today, says George Pitcher.
Wednesday. Life before death
Embracing death, parading it down streets, and even downplaying their egos, Julie Canlis contemplates why Christians do death.
Thursday. Pesellino: making the vital visible
Andrew Davison recalls learning deep wisdom from a child when he visited an exhibition at the National Gallery, London.
Good Friday. Cinematic passions
Directors Gibson, Darbont, Pasolini, Eastwood and Scorsese all feature in priest Yaroslav Walker’s top five Good Friday movies to watch.
Saturday. Identifying as human has deadly implications
Barnabas Aspray explores how the incarnation and an execution impacts humanity.
Easter Sunday. Why the anthropologists miss the point of Easter
Graham Tomlin unpacks why Easter is more than an illustration of new life.
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