Easter

I'm away to Jura* for the Easter weekend, so it's improbable there will be much posting happening around here. I hope you all have a splendid weekend, especially those of you for whom this is a properly significant time of year. See you next week, so to speak. *That's a view towards Mull, taken from Glengarrisdale Bay on Jura's uninhabited west coast.

In celebration of the feast of Easter, we've dug out this profound leader from March 1975, which looks at the ever-evolving relationship of church and state.  The Church, the State and the decline of the spirit, The Spectator, 29 March 1975 Spring is a time of rebirth; yet it is also the time of the death of Christ. It is the time when "Jesus knew that his hour would come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end" (John 13.i). In the Spring and Easter of 1975 there is much evidence of the death and of the departure of the spirit of Christ, but precious little evidence of rebirth or revival, whether in religious affairs or in the affairs of the state.