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Where to eat for lunch on Easter Sunday

Where to eat for lunch on Easter Sunday

Published by Sam Flores

Fallow co-founders Jack Croft and Will Murray met on the veg station at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, where they bonded and made plans for their own venture. Today, Fallow is a social media sensation, a cool, chic, queued-for restaurant always busy with diners. The Sunday lunch here is tremendously extravagent and ideal for celebratory meals. Take the roast beef, or rump from retired dairy cows that are served with a vast Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, glazed carrots, red cabbage, greens and gravy; elsewhere there’s Middle White pork and smoked leeks with Bermondsey cheese for vegetarians. It’s not just the roast dinners here, though. Pay close attention to the fried pigs’ head, the potato waffles, market fish and much more besides. Source link

In the Easter story, women are the first to proclaim the resurrection – but churches today are still divided over female preachers

In the Easter story, women are the first to proclaim the resurrection – but churches today are still divided over female preachers

Published by Sam Flores

(The Conversation) — On Easter Sunday, festively decorated churches across the United States will be filled with worshippers eager to celebrate the most important day in the Christian year. While some will attend services led by pastors who are women, the overwhelming majority of worshippers will not. Women constitute 23.7% of professional clergy in the U.S. and an increasing percentage of people earning graduate theology degrees. However, data from 2018-19 shows that only 14% of U.S. congregations, most of which are Christian, are led by women. The number of women in Christian pulpits stands in jarring juxtaposition with the Easter narratives in the New Testament. The Gospel stories of the resurrection of Jesus point to how essential women’s witness and proclamation were in the earliest stages of Christianity. First witness Many denominations share a system assigning particular Bible verses to be read at each week’s services – a cycle that takes three years, called Years A, B and C, to complete. Because Easter 2026 falls in year A in the common lectionary, the Gospel reading …