Tag: faith
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Freedom
In this season as everything seems to be hotting-up, we should receive with gracious hospitality the conflicts in Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine, Iran, we receive the growing belittlement and control of women, we hold the hatred and lack of humanity towards our transgender and LGBTQIA+ siblings, and breathe prayers of peace and freedom into them as…
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What Does the Fox Say?
The Pharisees, those who most often pit themselves against Jesus, come to warn him that Herod wants him dead. He is advised to run away, to go into exile as his earthly forefather David did, to protect himself. Instead he calls Herod a fox, and says ‘nope’.
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Preaching out
On a personal level, finishing my contract as Food Lead has given me more space and time to focus on how I live out my own priestly calling, but on a more public level, and indeed an international stage, there are questions about what a priest should or shouldn’t do.
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Don’t look back in anger…
I have recently discovered that if you visit a Lego store you can create your own mini Lego characters, and I am a little addicted! There are vats of heads, wigs, bodies, and accessories to chose from, and you spend quite some time being creative. You can even get heads that swivel from happy to…
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Holy Sandwiches, Batman! It’s Picnic Season
My most memorable picnics have been the simple kind, a basket containing fresh bread, some cheese, some fruit, and a bottle of wine kept cool in the river. These picnics were memorable because of the simple quality of the food, but also because of who I was with.
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And Dream of Sheep
I don’t have a sermon to share, as we will be creating the sermon together. Instead I have questions, so many questions, which I hope we will be able to find answers to together.
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Shrouded in Mystery
We celebrate today, and it is right that we do, there is much to be celebrated, but we cannot help but mourn what is still happening around the world. It is hard to balance the joy of Easter and the promise of Eternal Life when we are living in the ‘not yet’.