Is Easter a Pagan Festival? 

Is Easter a Pagan Festival? 

Have you ever been told Easter is a pagan word?.

  • Ramon Williams

    This is a tribute to an influential Australian Christian  - Ramon Williams (1931 - ) Christian media distributor. In 2013 The Australasian Religious Press Association took great pleasure in honouring Ramon Williams with a “Special Citation for exceptionally meritorious service to the Christian community, and specifically to Christ".

  • The waiting game

    I meet people all the time who are waiting… Waiting on something, waiting for that next job to come along, waiting for a promotion, waiting for a special someone, waiting for a baby.  But what I have learnt is at different seasons in our lives we are all waiting but not often do we wait well. 

  • Superannuation – not again

    Federal Election Day is six days away. Yes, superannuation is back in the news. Last week on nation affairs commentator said it was to be ‘$ raised’ after the election.

  • Christmas in July, Easter in September?

    The Liturgical calendar was made and crafted for the Northern Hemisphere. Easter is set to Spring the period of new growth. However in the southern hemisphere all the signs for Easter are not there. It is Autumn, Spring is months away. Why do I never hear anyone asking for change?

  • Have you ever known a love like this?

    For Australians the month of April this year was back to back weekends of Easter and Anzac day. Both times when we remember the sacrifices others have made for us.

  • The Boomerang Principle

    The boomerang principle was on my mind recently as I sought God, so I shared about it to an Indigenous friend. Amazingly, my friend had just been considering establishing a trademark involving a boomerang design. There was a sense of divine confirmation and joy.

  • Heroes and Villains

    One of the key factors behind the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been way it has taken the often two-dimensional characters of the comics and given them a story that explains what has made them who they are and why they do the things they do.

  • I identify as a teenage girl, do you?

    I am a Christian, Jamaican, middle-aged, cis-gender heterosexual woman. A mother of two married to a cis-gender man.

  • Quotes

  • Can a mother forget her child?

    The bond between mother and child is rather remarkable. When my babies were born, it changed my whole world.

  • Silent witness of the water cycle

    The earth’s water cycle is the process by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere and land involving precipitation as rain and snow, draining into streams and rivers, and returning to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.