War Cry 3 April 2021

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EDITOR From the editor’s desk

THE egg-citement is growing across the country – there may still be another week or so to wait before most people can finally get a haircut, but tomorrow (Sunday 4 April) is the day when some of the 80 million Easter eggs sold in the UK can be opened and eaten.

In reality, many of us have probably already started to make our way through the more than £300 million worth of Easter eggs that are purchased at this time every year. But that won’t stop tomorrow being a sweet day for countless adults and children alike.

The biggest manufacturer of chocolate eggs in the UK is Cadbury, and in this week’s War Cry, Diane Wordsworth, who has written books about the chocolate-making company, tells us about its origins and the Christian faith of the founder John Cadbury and his sons.

‘I believe that their faith … was the basis upon which they treated their workforce,’ she says. ‘They believed that a happy and healthy workforce would perform much better than a miserable and unhealthy one.

‘They encouraged their workers to embrace a Christian faith,’ she adds.

Easter is the most important festival for people with a Christian faith.

Its significance goes far beyond the chocolate and treats enjoyed by so many. It is a time when the death and resurrection of Jesus are remembered and commemorated.

‘The Easter story resonates with life and hope,’ General Brian Peddle, the international leader of The Salvation Army, writes in this issue. He continues: ‘The life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ remind us that God is with us in every circumstance, that he is bigger and more powerful than any circumstance, and that God specialises in the miraculous and the impossible.’

Easter is about so much more than the chocolate eggs we love to give and receive at this time of year. It is a demonstration of God’s power and his love for each one of us. That really is something to be excited about.

CONTENTS

What is The Salvation Army?

FEATURES 3

Upcycled A bike, tea trolley and boat are remade in TV show

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Creme of the crop How Cadbury founders led by example

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A passion for drama Theatre company goes online to tell Easter story

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How the death and resurrection of Jesus

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Team Talk

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Now, There’s a Thought!

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War Cry Kitchen

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TELEVISION Craftsman Rob works on turning an old tea trolley into something more useful

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Sarah Olowofoyeku sees experts provide old items a fresh start

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TEMS that have been collecting dust are transformed in BBC Two’s Saved and Remade, which began on Monday (29 March). In each episode host Sabrina Grant meets people who are holding on to much-loved keepsakes that they sadly can no longer use but that they do not want to get rid of. A team of skilled creators including seamstresses, woodworkers and metalsmiths enthusiastically offer their visions of how to give each piece a new lease of life.

They have already been busy. This week, Graeme arrived at the workshop with an unused tea trolley that had a squeaky wheel. Although he couldn’t use it, he was keen to preserve it, as it held memories of his grandmother. Not only had she used it to serve his family tea, but she would also keep their Christmas presents on it.

Interior design and furniture specialist Rob turned the tea trolley into a functional coat stand, an item that could take pride of place in the family home again.

He even managed to ensure that one of the wheelsturned-coat pegs still squeaked – much to Graeme’s delight.

Later in the week, Caroline brought in a boat from her sailing club. The boat, Lucy, was damaged in a storm and could not be used. However it was the boat on which many members of the club learnt to sail, and so Caroline wanted to find a way to keep it. This time Rob paired up with furnituremaker Daisy, and they turned it into a play area for the club’s children. Caroline was thrilled that the boat had been given a new purpose.

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Next Monday, Jesse rides into the workshop with the bike bought for him when he was 12 years old. Because he had dyspraxia, learning to ride was a challenge and so when he finally did learn, the bike was a gift to mark the occasion. An adult now, he can no longer ride it, but the bike holds special meaning. Metalsmith Leigh has drawn up a new future for Jesse’s treasured possession.

Will it do the bike justice?

Most of the show’s guests are pleased with their outcomes, because the truth is, when we love something – no matter how worn and tattered it is – we don’t want to let it go.

That is how God thinks of us. And to him we are far more precious than tea trolleys, boats and bikes, even if they are ones with sentimental value.

We are his creation but many of us have struggled in life.

Some of us are battered and bruised, and have weathered too many storms. We ourselves may feel that we are broken and worthless. But God sees our worth and will never let us go.

Because of his love for us, he sketched out a plan – ‘he gave his one and only Son … to save the world through him’ (John 3:16 and 17 New International Version). The death and resurrection of God’s Son, Jesus, which are commemorated at this time of year, tell us that God thinks we are worth saving.

Jesus’ sacrifice gives us the hope of everlasting life and offers us a way to enjoy transformed and rewarding lives today. Though we may sometimes still be worn down by our circumstances, Jesus promises us new life.

Some of us are battered and bruised

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In their In the year that Cadbury is marking 50 years of its Creme Egg, DIANE WORDSWORTH tells Philip Halcrow what lay behind the founding family’s business practices

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HOPPERS have been putting all their eggs in online or physical baskets in the run-up to Easter Day. And amid the dozens of product names, the Creme Egg – traditionally available between new year and Easter – has been advertising that it is celebrating 50 ‘goolden’ years.

‘Cadbury started to fill eggs in about 1923,’ says Diane Wordsworth, author of two books about the company – A History of Cadbury and The Life of Richard Cadbury.

‘The Creme Egg arrived in about 1963 money given to him by his father to open but it was marketed under the name of a shop in Birmingham on 4 March 1824.

Fry’s. It became the Cadbury Creme Egg ‘John Cadbury was originally a tea in 1971.’ dealer and coffee roaster,’ Diane tells People have become fond of the me. ‘He also sold cocoa beans from his fondant-filled egg. Newspapers report shop in Bull Street, though they were on its marketing campaigns and changes very much a sideline. All that John did to its packaging and recipe. Meanwhile with the cocoa beans was roast the nibs last year, the company behind it was declared by trade magazine The Grocer to and then grind them with a pestle and mortar. He believed that the resulting be ‘the country’s biggest grocer brand’. A lot has changed since John Cadbury used drink made a delicious and nutritious breakfast beverage.

Soon he was pushing it as an alternative to drinking alcohol as part of a personal mission to advocate temperance.’

Not much is known of John’s early processing of cocoa, says Diane.

‘However, a price list survives from 1842 that lists 15 different types of eating or drinking chocolate and ten different flavoured cocoas. But we do know that substances such as starch were still being added to the drink to absorb the naturally occurring fatty cocoa butter and

Diane Wordsworth to make the drink more palatable – it was apparently quite bitter.’

At this stage in the business’s development, its products were not, she notes, very different from other manufacturers. Everyone was experimenting with ways of making cocoa more drinkable. Yet Cadbury must have been doing something right with his business.

‘The shop in Bull Street was one of the first to have plate glass windows, which would

The shop would have smelt nice

John Cadbury, who began the company

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INTERVIEW

were a number of key ingredients in its subsequent success.

First, Richard and George were prepared for hard graft.

‘They rolled up their sleeves, putting in very long hours and working side by side with their workers.’

Then in 1866 George visited the Netherlands and returned with a press that got rid of the excess cocoa butter and allowed the company to produce pure cocoa, unadulterated by starches. ‘The

process made for a much milder drink,’ says Diane.

‘Then in 1879 they built their “factory in a garden” at Bournville. During this period, they were able to spend more time on the health, happiness and well-being of workers. I think this was the main turning point for the business.’

A century and a half of chocolatemaking history later, Bournville is still

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have displayed the barrels and sacks of tea, coffee and cocoa. He also had a statue of a Chinese man over his counter.

The shop would have looked inviting and would have smelt nice too.

‘In 1831, John Cadbury was doing so well at his business that he opened a fourstorey warehouse around the corner.’

In 1847, the business moved into its first proper factory in Bridge Street, which employed 200 people. But, Diane observes, by the time John’s sons Richard and George inherited the firm from him in 1861, it was in trouble.

‘Several things had happened. There had been the death of John’s second wife and the death of his father, John’s subsequent spiral into depression and ill health. The company was losing money.

Credit control had started to become an issue. In 1859 only 11 girls worked at the Bridge Street factory and maybe only 20 or so by 1861 when the brothers took over.’

But the company did not go into meltdown. And Diane suggests that there

Cadbury employees take a break at Bournville, c 1932

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INTERVIEW ALAMY

From page 5 the place that the present-day Cadbury company refers to as ‘our home’, its 21st-century website detailing the 19th-century features designed to give workers a better quality of life than they would have experienced in the city slums.

Diane says: ‘The Cadburys wanted to move away from the crowded and dirty Birmingham streets and towards the healthy open countryside. They bought a lot of land and built not only their factory, surrounded by green fields and leafy lanes, but also sports fields, gardens and homes. The workers’ houses all had gardens, although not all workers got the houses and not all the houses were for workers – some of the houses were rented to other people so that the area wasn’t populated only by people from the factory.’

Looking over the early years of the company, Diane says that the Cadburys ‘did such a lot for the benefit of the working classes’. She adds: ‘I believe that

their faith – and their socialism, which was perhaps related to their faith – was the basis upon which they treated their workforce.’

The Cadburys were Quakers, members of the Christian tradition that had grown up in the 17th century and that had emphasised the importance of living out the faith. The nonconformist religion had initially been frowned upon by the authorities. Diane notes that John Cadbury’s greatgreat-grandfather, one of the first converts made by Quakerism’s founder George Fox, had been imprisoned for his faith.

The way that the Cadburys ran their developing company, she says, reflected their beliefs.

‘They believed in educating their workforce and, as far back as 1852, would allow the girls to leave early to attend evening classes. They believed that a happy and healthy workforce would perform much better than a miserable and unhealthy one.

‘They encouraged their workers to embrace a Christian faith, if not specifically a Quaker faith. Every working day began with a reading and a hymn, and all workers had to attend. Even though singing wasn’t part of the Quaker religion, the Cadburys did enjoy singing hymns.

‘They also provided Sunday schools and, because women generally weren’t allowed to work at the factory after they married, they set up mothers’ meetings which consisted of Scripture readings and hymns.

‘They encouraged their employees to save for retirement and to abstain from indulging in alcohol by having full and busy lives outside of work. They were pacifists too, and when their workers were called up to military service, the company kept their jobs open for them.’

In three years’ time, it will be 200 years since John Cadbury

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George Cadbury

opened his shop. Cadbury has become ‘the country’s biggest grocer brand’. Away from confectionery, Bournville is credited with having influenced the growth of the garden city movement and town planning.

And Diane, who doubts that Richard and George Cadbury ‘would recognise their product today’, believes that their attitude towards workers’ rights can offer food for thought in the modern world.

‘I personally think,’ she says, ‘that many companies today would learn a lot from the ethics and practices of the Cadbury brothers.’

l A History of Cadbury and The Life of Richard Cadbury are published by Pen and Sword

INTERVIEW

Theatre company makes play of Easter story Creative associate of Riding Lights ERIN BURBRIDGE tells Sarah Olowofoyeku why the theatre company has not let restrictions stop it from sharing an important performance

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HEATRE doors are still closed, but the show must go on. A little over a year ago, when the first national lockdown was introduced, touring company Riding Lights was days away from the opening night of its Easter production.

‘The announcement came and we had to pull the show,’ says Erin Burbridge, creative associate of the company. ‘We were all reeling. We had no idea what this meant for us as a company or what was going to happen. It was sad for us not being able to send the play out on tour after all the work that had gone into it.’

Over the past year or so, Riding Lights has steadily got to grips with performing in a pandemic. It has hosted a theatre summer school on Zoom and at Christmas filmed The Selfish Giant. This week, it is uploading its Easter play Breaking Day online.

Erin tells me the production was disrupted again.

‘We intended for it to be filmed socially distanced in one place, using a green screen. We had everything ready but then, in early January, lockdown was announced and we realised filming that way wasn’t going to be possible any more.

We’re based in York and all the actors were in London.

‘We decided to take a pretty big risk and get the actors to film their parts separately in their own homes. So we sent them all the equipment: green screen, camera,

microphone, props and costumes. We rehearsed everything on Zoom and then each actor set up their own individual film studio. They performed it on a Zoom call and it took about 10 days to film. We put it all together so it looks like they’re in the same space.

‘It’s not like anything we’ve done before; it was a learning curve. But the actors jumped at the challenge. We laughed a lot making this. But there were things we had to manage, such as how much time we spent on Zoom.

We shortened our days and made lunch breaks longer so that we had a chance to get out and walk while it was still light.’

Erin says that she is thankful for the small group of actors.

‘They had a tough job, but they threw themselves in with no complaints. They had to be aware of where their lighting was, whether their microphone was at the right level, how their costume was looking, continuity, having to call their own shots – all things you would never have to do on a film set, but they did it all with a smile.

‘On top of that, they had to hold their whole character arc and journey. And it’s a tough play. It’s a Good Friday play, which means it’s about the events leading up to an execution.’

Erin explains more about the premise

The actors filmed their parts separately in their own homes

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From page 7 of Breaking Day. ‘It’s a story about the inner workings of Pontius Pilate’s house and the decision that led to Jesus’ death. Pilate was one of the Roman governors when Jesus was alive. There was an interesting relationship between the Roman Empire and the Jewish people. The Jews had faced a lot of oppression and weren’t necessarily thrilled to have the Romans telling them

how to live their lives.’

‘Pontius Pilate wanted to be a good Roman leader but also didn’t want the Jews to revolt against him. Jesus had been encouraging people to think about kings and kingdom as things that aren’t earthly, which upset the Romans.

Intellectually, they were scared of him.

And the Jewish people believed Jesus was blaspheming by claiming he was the

Pontius Pilate (Tom Peters) learns about Jesus from his servant and (below) wonders what is truth

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Son of God. Pilate had to navigate all that, while not understanding why Jesus should be killed because, in Pilate’s opinion, Jesus had done nothing wrong.’

The play begins in the middle of the night, when Jesus is arrested after being betrayed by one of his followers. While there is no Jesus character, the story is told through the interactions between Pontius Pilate, his wife Claudia and their

Hannah (Rachel Hammond)

INTERVIEW

Pilate’s wife Claudia (Grace Cookey-Gam) has been disturbed

servant, a follower of Jesus.

‘This servant has a deep understanding of the Scriptures,’ explains Erin. ‘She’s the audience’s insight into the Christian story. She watched the agony of Jesus as he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, and was helping as a servant at the Last Supper. She explains that Jesus has to die for us because the Scriptures say so.

She’s someone who has been waiting for the Messiah, so she understands that

As a company, we love telling stories of faith and hope this is a story of hope rather than fear and that, through all of it, something greater is coming.’

While the play tells the events only of Good Friday, Erin hopes that audiences will try to find out what happens next.

‘There is a moment at the end of the play that doesn’t feel like the end of the story,’ she says. ‘It feels like more is going to happen, and we’d love to leave people wanting to go and find out more about who Jesus is.’

If people do explore further after the watching the virtual play, Erin believes they will ‘discover that Jesus is hope’.

She says: ‘In the face of trial and difficulty, they will find somebody who is rooting for them, no matter what happens, someone who doesn’t want them to come to harm and will comfort them in difficult moments.’

Erin certainly believes that she and her team have experienced all of that for themselves over the past year.

‘I’ve felt really strongly that God is rooting for us through all of this. As a company, we’ve discovered how faithful God is and how he has guided us through everything and helped us to prosper.’

Sharing such messages of faith is important to Riding Lights.

‘In a normal year we would put out four or five tours,’ says Erin, ‘But one thing we do every year is a passion play. It’s a commitment in our touring schedule, because without that context of our faith, nothing else makes sense.

‘As a company, we love telling stories of faith and hope, and the Easter story is at the heart of what we believe as Christians. It is the key to salvation. The fact that Jesus died and rose again for us is the cornerstone of our faith, and there’s

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always more to understand about the story, so we want to keep shedding light on it in a different dramatic way.’

The Easter story, she adds, is an uncomfortable one.

‘The fact that somebody died for us can be hard to make peace with. If the story stops at Good Friday, it means nothing. It’s just a great teacher who died. But because we have the following Sunday when Jesus is resurrected, it means everything. It means that Heaven is accessible for us all and this life isn’t all there is. To me, the story means that I am loved without an agenda and that, no matter what happens, there is always hope.’

l Breaking Day is available to watch at ridinglights.org until 15 April

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Easter can be

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EASTER MESSAGE

life-changing General Brian Peddle, the international leader of The Salvation Army, reflects on the meaning of Easter for Christians

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HE Easter story resonates with life and hope, and how we desperately need these in our world today! Through the years of the Old Testament, we clung to the hope in the prophecies of a Messiah. Through the silence of the years between the Old and New Testaments, we clung to the hope that God had not forgotten his people or his promises. Then that hope took on flesh and blood in the person of Jesus and we witnessed for ourselves that God had remembered the cries of his people, confirming that our hope was not in vain.

We witness a Jesus who taught and modelled forgiveness and love, who partied with tax collectors, dined with sinners, spoke with women of dubious morals, condemning no one. We see for ourselves a glorious mixture of grace and truth. We are caught in awe and wonder as Jesus turned water into wine, gave sight to the blind, made the lame walk, cast out demons, healed the leper, controlled the wind and waves, and we see for ourselves the inexhaustible power of God. On Good Friday it appeared as though hope had gone as the life flowed out of Jesus’ body. This irresistible man of captivating parables, insightful teaching and miracles, with the ability to impact the very fabric of society and people to the utmost depths of their being, was killed on a cross and placed in a tomb. It looked and felt like someone had turned out the

General Brian Peddle light and put a lid on our hope.

Then something truly remarkable, life-transforming and world-changing happened: the stone was rolled away, the grave clothes left in a pile – because Jesus was alive! The light was more glorious than ever, and our hope found new heights.

Easter is not simply a remembrance of something that happened in the past – but as we celebrate it we remind ourselves that the resurrection life is to be an everyday experience. The pandemic we are experiencing makes it feel, at times, similar to Good Friday – as though the light has been turned off and a lid put on our hope.

There are many circumstances in life that may cause us to feel like that – natural disasters, illness, unemployment, divorce, drug addiction, bankruptcy, domestic violence, racism. The life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ remind us that God is with us in every circumstance, that he is bigger and more powerful than any circumstance, and that God specialises in the miraculous and the impossible.

Resurrection life is full, abundant, complete and whole

When we have given up on ourselves, God still believes in us. When we feel like we are unloved, God shows us Jesus. When we feel like we have made the biggest mistake of our lives, Jesus provides forgiveness. When we are suffocating in the darkness, God shines the light of his presence. When we are despairing, Jesus provides hope.

You see, this resurrection life is a full, abundant, complete and whole life. This resurrection life is a new life, because it is life in Christ and, as such, is free from condemnation. This resurrection life starts the minute we accept Christ as Saviour and continues for all eternity.

This resurrection life is dynamic, because the power of God is unleashed in us.

The change starts on the inside and transforms how we view everything.

On that first Easter morning the disciples were still experiencing Roman occupation and all that came with it, but the realisation that Jesus was alive and that every promise had been fulfilled changed everything. They now had an eternal view, they understood that sin and death had been conquered, that the Kingdom was indeed a spiritual Kingdom and that God reigned supreme over everything.

Such understanding would change how they viewed and responded to life in this world because the glorious light of Christ shone in their lives and the hope of eternity was secured. They would never be the same again – just as we will never be the same again if we claim that same resurrection power.

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EXPLORE

Prayerlink YOUR prayers are requested for Gerald, who is suffering from poor mental health and the loss of his mother.

The War Cry invites readers to send in requests for prayer, including the first names of individuals and details of their ­circumstances, for publication. Send your Prayerlink requests to warcry@salvationarmy.org.uk or to War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, Lon­don SE1 6BN. Mark your correspondence ‘Confidential’.

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Becoming a Christian

There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God

Lord Jesus Christ, I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong.

Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free.

Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit.

Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever.

Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Amen

talk ‘ ’ Team talk TEAM TALK Thank you for the music Claire Brine gives her take on a story catching the attention of War Cry reporters

ACCORDING to musical instrument makers Yamaha, 75 per cent of Britons have turned to music to beat lockdown blues. Some people have found comfort from just listening to tunes they know and love. Others, reported The Guardian, have used their time stuck at home to learn a new instrument, discovering that it has ‘helped them cope with the traumas of the past year’.

The article commented on John Smith, a retired Baptist minister who was given a Celtic harp for his lockdown birthday last May. John said: ‘I had seen a busker playing a similar harp near David’s tomb in Jerusalem four years earlier and must have talked enough about it to inspire the gift … I practise every day and I love it.’

Whether people are simply listening to music during lockdown or trying to make it, the amount of pleasure and reassurance that it brings should not be downplayed. Speaking on the podcast Life Hacks: Lockdown Wellbeing, Dr Victoria Williamson, a consultant on the psychology of music, put forward the idea that ‘the vast majority of us are deeply musical beings’.

She said: ‘Because music is so connected to our emotions, it’s a wonderful way in which we can reflect and … create a world around us that matches how we’re feeling.

‘Music is in the celebrations of every single culture that has ever been found on Earth,’ she went on, ‘no matter how remote or disconnected from technology. They all used music to celebrate the big moments and to mourn the really sad times.’

It sounds as if since life began, music has accompanied it. It has been key in helping people to make sense of their experiences. It has brought them joy and calmed their troubled minds.

Music also brings many people closer to God – and his love.

As I reflect on Easter this year, I remember a short verse in the Bible which says that before Jesus was arrested and crucified, he sang a hymn with his followers. Hours away from death, he sought to make a connection with God through music.

Whatever we are going through, so can we.

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EXPRESSIONS

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Who wrote the novel Cloud Atlas?

Actress Judi Dench was born in which English city?

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What is the name of the theme song, sung by the Rembrandts, for the TV sitcom Friends?

In what year did the supersonic airliner Concorde fly for the first time?

In which major US city does the Metropolitan Transportation Authority operate?

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EOPLE bury things for one of two reasons – either the object is precious or it is considered worthless. When things are precious, they have traditionally been buried in order to save them. They may be treasure buried deep underground or repositories of comforting keepsakes stored in a cupboard.

They may be bulbs that we hope will grow or information in time capsules for future generations.

Conversely, people also bury things that are no longer wanted.

Refuse dumps are full of objects once useful but now obsolete or broken. Sometimes evidence of wrongdoing is buried, and secrets are hidden in the depths of the earth.

Just as there are reasons for burying things, there can also be grounds for bringing them to the surface. Minerals are mined for industrial purposes or for the jewels that yield wealth. Archaeologists bring artefacts to the surface as a way to learn about the past.

When Jesus was crucified 2,000 years ago, his body was buried.

While his burial would have been different from what we are familiar with today, the Bible tells us that Jesus was placed in a sealed tomb.

His followers loved him and wanted to keep his body safe. To those who had engineered his death, his burial represented the end of someone they thought was a waste of space – a dead troublemaker, soon to be forgotten.

But Jesus didn’t stay buried. Two days later, he came out of the tomb. His followers, who had seen him die, saw him alive among them. He was no longer hidden away in a tomb but active.

His resurrection changed a group of disappointed people into world-changers. The disciples went to regions far and wide to say, ‘He is risen!’

Christians around the world assert this message today and celebrate it specifically at Easter time. The truth that Jesus defeated death, is alive and offers eternal life to all is to be believed and acted upon, not left buried in the past.

His resurrection changed a group of people

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D Easter cake with orange and marzipan Ingredients

Method

175g butter, softened

Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5.

175g light soft brown sugar

Grease a 20cm cake tin and line with baking parchment. Beat the butter, sugar, eggs, flour and baking powder in a large bowl until smooth. Fold in the peel, ground almonds, orange rind and juice and almond essence and spoon into the tin. Bake for 45 minutes or until risen and firm to the touch. Keep in the tin for 5 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.

3 large British Lion eggs, beaten 175g self-raising flour, sieved 1tsp baking powder 200g mixed peel, chopped 100g ground almonds 1 orange, rind and juice 1tsp almond essence Icing sugar, for dusting

SERVES

675g marzipan

10-12

3tbsp marmalade 50g plain chocolate 50g white chocolate

To decorate, use a knife to split the cake in half through the middle. Roll out two thirds of the marzipan on an icing sugar-dusted surface and cut out 2 circles to fit the cake. Brush the centre of the cake with some marmalade and sandwich the cake halves together with a marzipan round.

Brush the top of the cake with more marmalade and arrange the other marzipan round on top, crimping the edges. Roll the remaining marzipan into 11 balls and use marmalade to attach them to the cake.

Melt the chocolates in separate bowls over a pan of simmering water. Spoon into separate greaseproof paper piping bags. Drizzle over the top of the cake and leave to set.

Easter egg biscuits Ingredients

Method

Oil, for greasing

Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5.

100g butter

Grease 2 baking sheets with oil. In a pan, melt the butter, sugar and syrup. Allow to cool. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl and stir in the melted butter mixture.

175g light soft brown sugar 4tbsp golden syrup 350g plain flour 1tsp bicarbonate of soda 2tsp ground ginger 1 large British Lion egg, beaten 1 lemon, grated rind 65g icing sugar 1tbsp lemon juice Coloured chocolate sweets, to decorate

Add the egg and lemon rind and mix to make a firm dough. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and use a 5cm round cutter to make 20 biscuits. Transfer to the baking sheets, then gently shape each round into an oval. Use a skewer to make a hole in the middle of each biscuit. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden, then cool on a wire rack.

Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl and spoon into a piping bag. Use the icing to stick the coloured chocolate sweets on the biscuits. Leave to set.

Thread a ribbon through each biscuit to hang up before serving.

Recipes reprinted, with permission, from the British Egg Information Service website eggrecipes.co.uk

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