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On Parasites and Vampires
01/06/2020
Art often provides us with a glimpse of reality. It provides us with the possibility of thinking differently by estranging us from ourselves for a moment.
On Remaining Together
28/05/2020
The Johannine epistles have a lot to say about group boundaries and who is in and who is out.
Vultures around the Carcass? Judgment, Blame and Scapegoats
25/05/2020
When I worked in Kenya in the 1980s, news circulated from Uganda of a disease which caused healthy young adults to lose weight rapidly and die.
COVID-19 and the Dilemma of Technology
21/05/2020
In Psalm 135, the Psalmist writes: ‘The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear, and there is no breath in their mouths. Those who make them and all who trust them shall become like them’ (vv 15-18 [NRSV]).
Living with new gratitude for the gift of life
18/05/2020
Just when I thought I had the ageing thing nailed, the government intervened.
What will we take?
14/05/2020
Like me, I am sure you have all noticed how much more silence there is in these days of isolation and being-at-home
Living 'Without God'
11/05/2020
During the summer of 1944 – 15 months into a 2-year imprisonment that would end in his execution in the Flossenbürg concentration camp – Dietrich Bonhoeffer told his best friend that the world had reached its adulthood and that it was time now, even (especially!) for Christians, to live ‘etsi deus non daretur’ – ‘as if there were no God.’
Rest amidst the Unrest
07/05/2020
The word Sabbath, Shabbat in Hebrew, comes from a root word meaning “to cease”: it is the cessation of work on the seventh day
The Pathway Ahead
04/05/2020
There is a sign on an Alaskan highway that warns drivers about the limitations facing them ahead. It reads “Choose your rut carefully, as you will be in it for the next 60 miles” reflecting the deep ruts which previous travellers have created on the highway.
Freedom and Love
30/04/2020
One of the things that it is easy to forget while “we” are in isolation is that not all of us are so lucky.
Normal Service Will Be Resumed
27/04/2020
Not “going to church” can make us feel really guilty, especially if we have been brought up that this was something we really ought to do.
Presence and Paraclete
23/04/2020
‘But Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ (John 14:5) is Thomas’ anguished cry as Jesus announced his imminent departure from the disciples in that upper room the night before his crucifixion.
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The Time of Singing Will Come
20/04/2020
Times of stress often lead to periods of deep introspection. Lent is already a period set aside by the Church for reflection and thoughtfulness.
The New Normal
16/04/2020
Staying home is now our new normal. And going to church at home has become the way we belong to the Body of Christ.
Meditation on Hebrews 2:5-18
14/04/2020
Meditation on Hebrews 2:5-18: This passage from Hebrews was the New Testament reading set for morning prayer on the feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, and it seems appropriate not just for the feast day but also for our present context.
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