Are we prepared to stand up and be anti-racist, anti-discrimination, anti-violence and what does that mean we have to do?

If there is one image associated with the Christian faith which has found an enduring and endearing place in the collective life of the church for centuries, it is the image of Jesus as the good shepherd. In the Bible there are over 500 references to sheep. In Psalm 100 verse 3 we read “Know…

The disciples are huddling together and have just heard Simon’s account of his walk with Cleopas to Emmaus, and how a stranger had started walking and talking with them. He is talking about how they were surprised that this stranger did not seem to know what had happened in Jerusalem – that the man, Jesus…

Imagine how it must have been for Mary, weeping outside the tomb, to then look into the tomb and see two angels sitting where the body of Jesus had been laid. Not an absence, but a presence – messengers from God; but they weren’t Jesus! And what anguish and grief there is in her words…

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 with Mary the mother of James and…

Palm Sunday Gospel Reading   Mark 11:1-11 11:1 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 11:2 and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has…

John 12:20-33 12:20 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 12:21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 12:22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 12:23 Jesus answered…