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Exploring themes of pain and loss, redemption and hope this Easter Sunday, Cathy is joined by Mez McConnell, Senior Pastor of Niddrie Community Church in Edinburgh, about his conversion to Christianity after a chaotic life of drugs, crime and violence.

The fall in the number of Scots attending church has become a challenge for every denomination. Our reporter Bob Dickson has been finding out about one solution; church planting, where groups of committed Christians set up small community based churches with the aim of attracting believers and non-believers alike.

We're marking Easter Sunday with a special feature looking at how themes of hope and redemption are expressed through art and by artists. Kevin Franz, of the Society of Friends, and Mo McCullough, talk to artists Joyce Gunn Cairns and Stuart Duffin.

Writer Virginia Moffatt, who works for the theological ideas think-tank, Ekklesia, and musician and member of the Iona Community, John Bell, discuss how faith can inspire creativity and how the creative arts can help us express our complex thoughts about pain and hope, about life and death.