Margaret's Message
All around us are signs of secular Easter – hot cross buns and chocolate eggs! Yum.
At St Michaels’s, online or at church, we are also invited into a deep engagement with the sacred stories of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
For many progressive Christians, the key question about resurrection is not “did it
happen?” but what does resurrection mean as a symbol of hope. Marcus Borg said that resurrection means that “God has said ‘yes’ to Jesus’ vision of the kin-dom and the Spirit of Jesus is with us still.” For me, the heart of the Easter story is also the
transformation of Jesus’ followers. They moved from doubt and fear to an embracing “yes” to all that Jesus was passionate about: to his experience of the Sacred and to has vision of the reign or kin-dom of God.
As we participate in changing the world – being compassionate people, working for racial and gender justice, caring and advocating for refugees, support for Australians
living in poverty, facing the challenges of climate change, we are joining in the “Yes” of resurrection. The resurrection is something the Sacred invites us to ‘come and see’ and then to live.
Meanwhile peace, Margaret
