Whilst the Christmas story is familiar in detail to most of us, I feel that the smaller details of the Easter story may be less so. As we travelled along in our car the other morning, we decided to put our knowledge of Popular music, artists and bands to the test and see how many could be linked to the Easter story. I realise that we both need to get out more, possibly to some closer destinations where we could just listen to the radio like most normal people!

However, this is what we came up with; Judas Priest, Nazareth, Christopher Cross, Jimmy Nail and last but not least, despite the different spelling, Pilot! The songs are; Arms of Mary, Sacrifice, The Israelites, Walking Miracle, Roll away the stone and my absolute favourite; I’m a believer!

The story of how Jesus died on the cross, ascended into Heaven and then rose again for the forgiveness of our sins and to bring us eternal life is an incredible one and unlike the lovely fairytales which usually involve everyone living happily ever after, this is not a work of fiction, it happened and I would urge you to familiarise yourselves with the story which appears in all four Gospels and that, in itself, is unique. Happy reading!

Carol May, St Nicholas Church, Radstock