Mar 23, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Sometimes I think I’m like Lazarus, entombed in fear, apathy, prejudice, gloom, … But I have heard a call, “Rosalind, come out!” And I have stumbled out, still greatly hindered by the limiting layers of self-doubt, the old voices in my head that say, “You’re not good...
Mar 14, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Grief comes in many forms: grief at the death of a loved one or respected leader; grief as we watch illness rob someone of precious abilities; grief as we discover that we will never reach a cherished personal goal or grief when someone for whom we had high hopes...
Mar 7, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Water is the source of life, but also of destruction. Exodus 17 tells of people desperate for water. It wasn’t that others had appropriated that which was given for all. They just didn’t know where their next drink would come from, and they expected their leader to...
Mar 1, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Because I have usually looked at the story of Abram’s call through the lens of Romans 4: 1-5, I have taken it to be the story of one man’s faith journey. It is that, but it is more. Read on and see that the 75 year old Abram travelled with his wife Sarai, his nephew...
Feb 20, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
To what does your mind turn when you hear that it is the first Sunday in Lent? Perhaps it means nothing to you. I always remember my dear father faithfully giving up his half teaspoon of sugar in coffee (he didn’t take sugar in tea) every Lent. But is that the sort...
Feb 13, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
This gospel, as does the report from Moses, relate two parallel aspects of life. There is a spiritual dimension to life. In his recent overview of Regenerative Agriculture in Australia, Charles Massey observes that so many of those who have embraced that wholistic way...
Feb 8, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
The difficult ethic of this Gospel is not new; the ultimate guide for a young person is spelled out in Ps. 119; Moses in Deut. 30 presents a life of ethical choices. Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took...
Feb 2, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Today’s gospel immediately follows the Beatitudes. And the readings are saying that the Beatitudes must not only be lived, but seen to be lived. The Gospel reminds us that it is essential for the Christian disciple both to be seen and heard. Jesus uses a string of...
Jan 23, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
How then shall we live? We are on a journey in our lives from Shittim (Is there an echo here? A place in the past with our dubious history.) to Gilgal (The first place where we will camp in the land, where we will set up stones to remember.) We are to live as ones on...
