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Arthur's Call - Loving and letting go
Arthur's Call - Loving and letting go
by SPCK - Frances Young
6 Loving and letting go At Faith and Light’s twentieth-anniversary celebration in Russia (see Chapter 3) I was asked to meet with parents each day, while their children (many adult) were engaged in activities with friends and helpers. Through an interpreter they kept asking their…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Idol Meat and Class conflict
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Idol Meat and Class conflict
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Idol Meat and Class Conflict (1 Corinthians 8-10) The problem Paul addresses in these chapters is that some members of the church feel free to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols, while for others this creates a crisis of faith…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Distribution of Powers
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Distribution of Powers
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Distribution of Powers (Deuteronomy 16: 18-18:22) Deuteronomy 16:18–18:22 deals with four national offices that together comprised Israel’s leadership: the judiciary (16:18–20; 17:8–13); kingship (17:14–20); priesthood (18:1–8); and prophecy (18:10–22). The chapters raise three i…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Advent - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Advent - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday in Advent - Year B Service contains: Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry or This is it, the stark beginning Prayer: Advent prayer Hymn: Come, let us sing of a wonderful love or Bounty and blessing spring from the hillsides, Reading: Isaiah 40:1-11 Psalm 85:1-2,…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - First Sunday of Advent - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - First Sunday of Advent - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
First Sunday in Advent - Year B Service contains: Hymn: O come, O come, Immanuel or In this time’s anticipation Prayer: Oh God, isn’t it time Hymn: The Church of Christ in every age or Bread of tears and bitter weeping Poem: Restoration - based on Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Reading: Isa…
Arthur's Call - Creation
Arthur's Call - Creation
by SPCK - Frances Young
4 Creation In creation there is fragility and vulnerability; that is the nature of creation. That was one of the wise sayings collected at our first L’Arche meeting. My original anguished question had been, ‘How can I go on believing in a good Creator God when something so drasti…
Arthur's Call - L’Arche, Lourdes, and Faith and Light
Arthur's Call - L’Arche, Lourdes, and Faith and Light
by SPCK - Frances Young
3 L’Arche, Lourdes, and Faith and Light The publication of Face to Face led to many requests to speak about disability in a variety of contexts, and this would eventually lead to the expanded version, published in 1990. Meanwhile, however, one thing leads to another: one such inv…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Sex and Spirituality
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Sex and Spirituality
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Sex and Spirituality (1 Corinthians 7: 1-40) Paul begins here to respond to the issues the Corinthians raised in their earlier letter. His obvious concern in this chapter, to present arguments that are balanced in their treatment of women and men, is striking…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Jonah's Second Call
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Jonah's Second Call
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Jonah’s Second Call (Jonah 3:1-10) Jonah 3:1 echoes 1:1: “The word of the Lord came to Jonah.” As in the first scene, the Deity commands Jonah to “arise,” “go,” and “call out” (3:2, my trans.). This time, however, Jonah does not flee but immediately obeys. It seems that Jonah get…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Advent - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sunday before Advent - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sunday before Advent – Christ the King - Proper 29(34) - Year A Service Contains: Hymn: When morning gilds the skies or What a noise, it shakes the heavens Prayer: Based on Ezekiel 34:11-16 - God, who cares Hymn: Come to us, creative Spirit or Come let us sing a melody Reading: P…
Arthur's Call - Through the wilderness years
Arthur's Call - Through the wilderness years
by SPCK - Frances Young
2 Through the wilderness years In the Bible the wilderness is a place of testing and doubt, but also a privileged place where God confronts and calls his people. In this chapter I retell my own version of this paradoxical experience…
Arthur's Call - Arthur's life with us
Arthur's Call - Arthur's life with us
by SPCK - Frances Young
1 Arthur’s life with us It was in June 2012, when he’d just had his 45th birthday, that Arthur finally left home and we ceased to be his carers. This chapter tells the human story, not just articulating what it’s like to have a child born with severe disabilities, but also giving…
Arthur's Call - Preface
Arthur's Call - Preface
by SPCK - Frances Young
Preface My purpose in this book is to give testimony to a journey of faith inspired by caring for a profoundly disabled son for 45 years, while also being theologian, university teacher and Methodist minister. It takes up, yet significantly modifies, the earlier account written w…
Arthur's Call - Foreword
Arthur's Call - Foreword
by SPCK - Frances Young
Foreword ‘Arthur is seriously brain-damaged and unable to develop normally.’ This was what Frances Young was told when Arthur was a few months old. Frances, then a mother with her first child, now a Methodist minister and former Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Univers…
The Post Evangelical - Notes
The Post Evangelical - Notes
by SPCK - Dave Tomlinson
Notes Preface to the SPCK Classics edition 1 Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (New York: Free Press, 1990), p. 203. 2 Robert Runcie, ‘Theology, the University and the Modern World’ in Paul A. B. Clarke, Andrew Linzey and John Moses (eds), Theology, the …
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