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Articles on Easter
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If you love a late-night chocolate egg, you may struggle to sleep. A sleep expert explains why.
Dark chocolate has a reputation for being healthier, but is that true? Here’s how to choose between dark and milk chocolate this Easter.
Women’s preaching is controversial in some Christian denominations – but key to the biblical story of Jesus’ resurrection.
Product reformulations are common in the food industry, and they can be done well, or poorly. Who remembers Doritos with olestra?
Do you prefer yours with sultanas and spices, or Vegemite and cheese? However you eat them, hot cross buns reflect centuries of tradition – and superstition.
Many people are convinced Easter egg chocolate tastes better than regular chocolate, and they may be onto something.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before.
Easter is the time for chocolate. This can also make it very tricky for parents to manage their kids’ chocolate intake.
You’d be surprised by how many of your favourite hits are about God or Jesus in one way or another.
Like a lot of things that happen at this time of year, the Stations of the Cross is a ritual – and an important one to many.
Who doesn’t love a chocolate egg or two at Easter? Here’s why a little indulgence may not do much harm.
Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.
The Bible is full of strong men and pumped prophets.
Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.
A Christian Palestinian human rights scholar who grew up in Bethlehem writes about the special time of Easter, but also about the restrictions on Palestinian Christians.
The ancient tenebrae tradition brings churchgoers face to face with the darkest moments of the Christian story.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors come to the Santuario de Chimayó throughout the year, but the pilgrimage during the week before the celebration of Easter is the high point.
Historically, many Christians got tattoos around Holy Week − usually a cross − to honor Christ’s martyrdom.
Some conservative Christians have taken to claiming ‘victim’ status in the modern world, but we should be wary of such claims.
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