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Matthew captures the events of this most amazing Sunday morning:

"After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the tomb. Look, there was a great earthquake, for an angel from the Lord came down from heaven. Coming to the stone, he rolled it away and sat on it. Now his face was like lightning and his clothes as white as snow. The guards were so terrified of him that they shook with fear and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, "Don’t be afraid. I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He isn’t here, because he’s been raised from the dead, just as he said. Come, see the place where they laid him. Now hurry, go and tell his disciples, ‘He’s been raised from the dead. He’s going on ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there.’ I’ve given the message to you."

"Good Friday deserves our attention and death deserves our grief," says Belle Tindall-Riley.

"I recently scrolled past a short clip of JRR Tolkien suggesting that ‘human stories are practically always about one thing, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death.' He may be onto something."  

"In her book A Place at the Table, A Rocha’s Jo Swinney movingly writes, ‘I think we know in our bones that we were made for permanence, which makes death an outrage, an offence, all but impossible to grasp’.

This article is from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity section on Connecting with Culture.