After The Cross -  Easter 2026

5 April - 2 May
 

After the cross what’s next? This month we use the story of the two disciples walking to Emmaus in Luke 24 to explore four different ways of responding to the cross. We can: flinch, shrug, kneel, and leap.

For many of us our reactions to the cross will be a mix of sorrow, scepticism, awe and hope — just like it was for the first disciples. Indeed, each response is intertwined. They are also all wordless. We are operating on the gut level here! These are physical reactions not intellectual statements. They are not mere metaphors to describe what we ‘think’ about the cross — they are actual physical responses our bodies make. The death and resurrection of Jesus was a deeply physical event and our responses to it are deeply physical too.

Each week, with the help of insights from theologians Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Donald Baillie and John Zizioulas, we will explore what it means to flinch, shrug, kneel and leap After the Cross…

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