Death, Resurrection, and Renewing Creation
Tomorrow afternoon at 3pm, a national minute’s silence will be observed as The Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral begins. The service will be viewed by millions around the world, but, for all the ceremony, it cannot possibly do justice to the fact that an extraordinary life spanning our turbulent 20th Century has ended. In one sense the death of a ninety-nine year old, however distinguished, is unspectacular. It is not a tragedy in the way that, for example, the death of a child is. In another sense, however, death, whenever it calls, is always...
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