Christians in the United States asked – and were granted – a

Christians in the United States asked – and were granted – a postponement of the general release of the controversial film Priest from Good Friday to the week after Easter, not because they necessarily disapproved of the film (though many did) but because the timing “crossed the line of decency”.There is something odd about the secular custom of celebrating Easter but not Holy Week. It is the ultimate Remembrance Day, a time for remembering death by torture. It is a day when Christians beg the secular world to respect our grief. Spare us the tastelessness of fairground music, of invitations to parties, of holiday noise and clatter.
We do not ask anyone to make a false show of faith. Let’s get one thing straight Today is not Easter Saturday It is Holy Saturday Easter begins tomorrow, at “early dawn” (Luke xxiv, 1) Easter Saturday is next week. Holy Saturday, today, is a day of mourning, of deadness, of the empty pain of loss and the dull shock of bereavement.

God gave me a rational mind.” In that sense, his victory was confirmation of Tinsley’s deep religious faith. A part- time minister at the Church of Christ in Tallahassee, Tinsley also taught bible classes. He saw a parallel between draughts and the Christian Fellowship of Suffering. Draughts players, shy and condemned to living with the tag of playing a kid’s game, had, according to Tinsley, their own fellowship of suffering.William HartstonMarion Tinsley, draughts player: born Columbus, Ohio 3 February 1927; died Houston, Texas 3 April 1995.. Tinsley won a tough contest by four wins to two with 33 draws.

Before the match, Tinsley had said: “I’m sure I have a better programmer than Chinook has. Soon, they said, a contest between man and machine at draughts would be like pitting a weightlifter against a fork-lift truck.On this occasion, however, the fork-lift truck was made to look more like a Dinky toy. Its programmers were confident that computers were on the verge of playing perfect draughts. Perhaps the most famous contest of his career came in 1992 when he was challenged by a computer program. “Chinook”, named after a draughty wind in the Rockies, had finished second only to Tinsley in a recent contest of the world’s best players. In 1989, he defeated a challenger, Paul Davis, by 10 wins to zero with 20 draws, an unprecedented level of domination in a game where the general level of technique normally guaranteed that most games were drawn.Two years previously, he had had a closer contest with Don Lafferty, one of his own students, which ended 2-0 to Tinsley with 36 draws.