Why do we eat hot cross buns at Easter?
What are the chocolate eggs all about?
Is it true that Easter originated as a pagan celebration?
My regular Wednesday morning guest on 98.5 Sonshine FM is Ross Clifford who is the Principal of Morling College in New South Wales and current President of the Baptist Union of Australia. Each week we chat about a range of issues relating to spirituality and belief.
Today we talked about Easter and asked whether it’s a time of religious significance or just a great excuse for a four day holiday.
One of the interesting things that came out of our conversation was the idea that we can celebrate not only the sacrifice that bought our freedom 2000 years ago but that we can live it out by demanding freedom for all. Ross talked about the modern slavery and human trafficking. There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.
If you want to do something about ensuring the freedom of all humanity you can visit the Stop the Traffik to learn more and find out how you can do your bit.
Will the Easter eggs you buy for your children be made with cocoa beans grown and harvested with West African slave labour? Your choices can make a difference.
This Easter will you be celebrating only what Jesus did for you or will you be doing your best to extend that forgiveness and freedom to ‘the least of these’?
You can hear our conversation by left clicking here or you could right click here to save the mp3 and listen later.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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