On Easter Sunday I took my son Hugo on his first holiday: a week away in the Lake District. At just a few months old, he’s experiencing everything for the first time, and as I carried him through fields and fells, narrating what we were encountering, I found myself noticing things I might otherwise have overlooked: the texture of bark, the sharpness of wind over water, the quiet resilience of sheep on a hillside. His wide-eyed curiosity invited me to pay attention and to see the world not through habit or assumption, but with renewed wonder.
It reminded me that Easter is not just a theological event we recall, but a perspective we adopt: one that invites us to notice new life breaking through in unexpected places. In this season of resurrection, we are invited not simply to believe in transformation, but to participate in it. To become active storytellers and attentive listeners in a world that is groaning for renewal.
At Bradford Cathedral, our latest season of events is shaped by this very impulse. Weaving Stories is more than a programme of exhibitions, concerts, and conversations; it’s an invitation to be part of something bigger and to stitch your own voice, history, and hope into a wider communal tapestry. Whether you write a Letter to the Future, explore textile heritage, walk the Yorkshire Heritage Way, or simply offer your prayer in the quiet of the building, there is space here for you.
We are not passive observers in this city’s story, nor in God’s. This Cathedral exists to hold space for sacred encounters, in art, in music, in social justice, in worship, and your presence matters. We long to change the narrative of our city and district and to change the way we see the world with which we are deeply connected. Together, let’s step into the hopeful work of weaving lives, faith, and culture with care and creativity.
With every Easter blessing.
The Revd Canon Ned Lunn, Intercultural Mission and the Arts