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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Journey to a village named Hot Spring
The story of Jesus meeting two disciples on the road to Emmaus, our gospel reading (Luke 24:13-35), is a wonderful but difficult story. Only Luke has this story, and no one seems to know where Emmaus is, just that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Emmaus, Hot Springs, Making the impossible possible, Trust in God
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Living good news v fake news
‘Fake news’ and ‘false news’ has itself been a news item recently. Donald Trump hit on this as a way of arguing that photographs that clearly showed a sparse crowd at his inauguration back in January had been doctored and … Continue reading
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Tagged evidence resurrection, fake news, living teachings of Jesus
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Journeying at a different pace
I don’t know if I am just being particularly aware of it this year, but a lot of people have wanted to hold meetings this week. And it is not just the secular world, which doesn’t hold much store by … Continue reading
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Tagged Holy Week, Little Gidding, Maundy Thursday, Poetry, Prayer, TS Eliot, Watch
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The Pillowman and the Passion
Just over a week ago I went to the Key Theatre to see Mask Theatre’s production of ‘The Pillowman’. The play is set in a totalitarian regime. The central characters are two brothers, under arrest in a police station, and … Continue reading
Alphabetic Prayer
I recently looked at Psalm 145 and discovered that it is an alphabetic Psalm. I hadn’t realised this before, but each verse begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet. So there are 22 verses – well there are … Continue reading
If only
Well, what a feast that gospel reading provides! It is a wonderful story full of intimate love and grief, of anguish and questioning. Rather than split up the flow, the lectionary this morning gave us the entire story of the … Continue reading