Where Distance Disappears
One member of our church told me the other day that she saw this time of social distancing as a time of retreat with herself. Isn’t that a wonderful way […]
Category: Sermon
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Faith for others
Indeed, which is easier to say? Your sins are forgiven? Or, Rise, take up your stretcher and walk? (Mark 2:1-12) It’s an open, rhetorical question. Jesus does not answer it. […]
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Take Lent “lentement”
In 2nd Peter chapter 3 we read: But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years […]
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No Goats Here
Here is a parable Jesus did not speak – at least not in the Gospels. But which he could have spoken. I came upon it in a book I’ve had […]
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Pre-Lenten Lessons
Jesus was frequently criticised for hanging out with prostitutes, tax collectors and other sinners. He was never criticised for going to dinner in the homes of Pharisees – which he […]
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The mission of the wounded healer
One word and one word only best describes the attitude of the Pharisee in the parable we hear today. One word: contempt. The Pharisee had nothing but contempt for the […]
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With the inner eye
February 2nd is the feast of The Meeting of the Lord – also known as the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. But it was a meeting; a meeting between […]
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Jesus Looked
Do you ever feel lost? That your life is lacking in something important, maybe lacking meaning or purpose? You feel separated from God? Then today’s reading from the Gospel of […]
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The Language that Remains
In a 1964 interview Hannah Arendt: “I realized… If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, […]
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Do the things undone
A very fine film came out last year which very few people saw, and even the critics took little notice of it – and those critics who did see it […]