The story we have just had as our gospel reading (Mark 10:13-16) could be easily trivialised. It’s not just about being childlike. It’s about the dignity and worth of children. That is not an unfamiliar message in our day and age, but it would have been in Jesus’ time. In a book written about Roman […]
Theology is poor people’s speech about their hopes and dreams
On Easter Day I wore a Central American highly ornamented white stole as we shared the Eucharist. I wore it again at last week’s funeral service that celebrated our friend Robin Brampton’s life. On both occasions I explained its history. And this morning, to celebrate the Church season of Trinity, I am wearing it again […]
God always shows a human face
Dear God, we pray for another way of being … Long ago I made it a rule to always try to preach on the hard texts of the Bible. Today’s reading depends on one of these, so while you have the selection from the Gospel in front of you – that is John 14: 8-17 – […]
Mothers’ Day
Like the moon’s steady ocean tug, memories hover, insistent, drawing me in…. Your earliest tenuous baby flutters deep inside me… growing so quickly into strong jabbing kicks. You bruised my ribs… Lying in bed, my swollen tummy pressed up against your father’s back…. keeping him awake so he too could feel your kicks. The […]
Balancing Fear and Love as the Frames of our Humanity
The essential theme of today’s Gospel reading is unity – to be one with each other as Jesus was one with God. This morning I want to suggest a values rather than text-book meaning for these puzzling words. Church in my younger days was more formal, more doctrinally passionate than it is for most of […]
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