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This was the reading for 4th Sunday of Lent. Luke 15:11-32. The message is strong, obvious and profound. As with all parables there are characters that can get missed or
Continue readingdiscipleship in a changing world, an existential journey
As with so many other parts of the rambling blog, this is a collection of posts that are tangential to most things. These are sort of trying to respond to bits of scripture that I need to respond to.
This was the reading for 4th Sunday of Lent. Luke 15:11-32. The message is strong, obvious and profound. As with all parables there are characters that can get missed or
Continue readingThe first time I played “The Earth is the Lord’s” was in St Luke’s church, Brislington, probably around 1990, with the worship band, New Dimensions. It was during a special
Continue readingA thoroughly poetic psalm, one that could not be written today anymore than then as an exact description of how things come to be, nor of our own place within
Continue readingRomans 2:17-29 I am very happy to describe myself as a Christian and I hope that if it became illegal to be one, there would be enough evidence in my
Continue readingMark’s Gospel is short. Sixteen short chapters that begin in the middle of the story—no frilly nativity for Mark— and ends before later editors thought it should—so someone added a
Continue readingJohn 20:19-31. Let’s hear it for Thomas. The guy who doubted, who wasn’t sure. The disciple known entirely through his denigrating adjective: doubting. Why do we disparage him by suggesting
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