Today, the Church falls silent. There is no greeting. No sign of triumph. No attempt to explain things away. We are left with the Cross. The reality of suffering. In a world feeling increasingly fragile, when the structures we rely upon are not as secure as we thought, the one answer we are given to the questions that rise within us is a man on a Cross This is deeply confronting. Because we want resolution. We seek clarity. We want assurance that things will be set right. But Good Friday gives us none of these. Instead, it gives us Jesus in his vulnerability. Stripped. Rejected. Powerless. And yet, we are those who dare to affirm that…

In these days, when the shadow of conflict weighs heavily upon our world, and when grim economic forecasts unsettle households and nations alike, we know too well the climate of uncertainty, anxiety, and the quiet fear of what may yet unfold. It is into such moments that literature—and faith—speak with renewed clarity. In several of the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling, there comes, at the end of the story, a striking insight into human nature. Such is the case in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. After all the turmoil and danger, Harry comes to a troubling realisation: that something of the darkness he opposes—something of Lord…