Easter

Easter

 Easter has come and gone, but not quite. The season of Easter in church circles at least, lasts until Whit Sunday which this year is June 9th. Plenty of time to finish all those Easter eggs.

Easter doesn't stop on Easter Monday. The seven weeks between Easter Sunday & Whitsun are just as significant as the seven weeks of Lent leading up to Good Friday, if not more so.

It was in this period that Jesus' first disciples had to come to terms with what had happened. We tend to forget. In the New Testament, in the Bible, we fall off the end of the Gospels into an empty space. Following the Gospel accounts of Jesus and his life and death, the next book in the sequence, The Acts of the Apostles, only picks up the story with the Ascension and Pentecost, aka Whit Sunday. There is a gap. 

It was into this black hole that the disciples fell straight after that first Easter weekend. It must have been a very confusing time. Not so much a celebration, more distress and grief. Everything had changed.

You may have noticed in the weeks before and after Easter some kind of rumpus going on in London. Extinction Rebellion. Waterloo Bridge. Oxford Circus. Parliament Square. Marble Arch. And many other places in London were disrupted and disturbed.

One of the groups involved in all this disturbance is Christian Climate Action.

These good folk have taken the Easter message to the streets in the form of a protest against Government failure, as they see it, to act with sufficient urgency to avert impending disaster.

The disaster we face, as David Attenborough and others have told us, has three facets:

1. Global warming leads to climate breakdown
2. Destruction of natural environment is exterminating life in its myriad forms
3. Plastic is getting everywhere

Something must be done. And fast. But it is not just governments. It's all of us. We have to change our behaviour. This, believe it or not, is the Easter message.

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