May 12, 2021 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
I am writing this the same day the guilty verdict was handed down on the killer of George Floyd. There is rightly much relief, much soul searching to address systemic racism and to reconnect broken communities. 9 mins 29 secs for the world to see; horrific, shameful...
May 4, 2021 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of nights and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you...
Apr 26, 2021 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
We love those we know and who are like us. We hold no fear. There is nothing to muddy our sanitised world views. It is easy to be the person of faith in that place. But we are not given that luxury. We must love the invisible ones, the ones who are different from us,...
Mar 29, 2021 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
At the end of the preceding chapter, Mark tells us that, when Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus’ body down from the cross, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where Jesus’ body was laid. In verse 1 of Chapter 16, it is again Mary Magdalene, but...
