20 April

Consumerism, and the great piles of rubbish it produces, is often said to be evidence that we’re a ‘materialistic’ society. But I think it shows exactly the opposite. We consume and throw away so much because we don’t value material things. Easter is a message of incarnation, of the divinity of material things. The Word made Flesh. We’re all about words, much less about material things. If we loved and valued material things, our world might be transformed. That’s the message of incarnation, of Easter.