He is Risen!

We've been having some technical difficulties with our web-sites, so I'll use that as an excuse for this absence, but now that we are in the season of Easter, there's new hope for blogging!
I love walking into a church on Resurrection Sunday, and without saying anything else, just launching an 'He is risen!' and having an 'He is risen indeed!' come back at me! It says a great deal about the connectedness of brothers and sisters in Christ across time and traditions as well as regularly astonishing me at how such a simple exchange explodes into worlds of meaning and deep joy. It's the secret handshake of the community of Christ, but as Lesslie Newbigin so beautifully put it - it is an 'open secret', one we should have no desire to keep hidden.