In 2017, the British Broadcasting Corporation commissioned a survey on religious beliefs in the UK. Strikingly, the survey found that fully a quarter of those who identified as Christians did not believe in the resurrection. This begs some important questions. Is the resurrection of Jesus Christ an optional element of the Christian faith or is it central and indispensable?

Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Priest who, during the Second World War, spoke out against the Nazi regime and offered protection and shelter to many Jewish people in the monastery in which he lived. In 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo and eventually sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. In July of that year, it was reported that three prisoners had escaped from the camp.

Isn’t it amazing how fast children grow up? How exciting it is for parents to see their children develop along the way, to transition from crawling to walking or from babbling to speaking. The writer of Hebrews references one such transition: that of moving from drinking milk to eating solid food.