People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any.