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THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Resurrection Issues
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Resurrection Issues
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Limited Divine Hospitality Not all discussions of foreign nations in Isaiah are so dispiriting. Isaiah 25 offers one of the best loved of all portraits, one which Christians often associate with eucharistic liturgies…
Times and Seasons - Mary’s visit to Elizabeth
Times and Seasons - Mary’s visit to Elizabeth
by Marjorie Dobson
Mary’s visit to Elizabeth When Mary arrived she looked worn out. The journey was bound to be tiring in her condition and I know she’d not been having an easy time in her home town and with her gossiping neighbours. But as I saw her approaching I could feel the excitement building…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 40:10, 12, 15
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 40:10, 12, 15
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 40:10, 12, 15 To be content to do only the will of God is how God originally fashioned the heart to be. With the gift of freedom came also the risk that the human heart might chase after other desires. These psalms testify to the vagaries of the heart, but they also capture…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 78:9, 37, 73
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 78:9, 37, 73
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 78:9, 37, 73 This psalm is a saga of the heart. Read it all to get the full and turbulent story of one heart in pursuit of the other, the divine and the human. It spans generations. It shows that the faithlessness of one generation does not mean that God will abandon the ne…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 90:10, 12
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 90:10, 12
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 90:10, 12 This prayer also swims against the tide of our culture where youthfulness is coveted and ageing dreaded. Yet in spite of the worship of agelessness, where the vitamin pills are the sacraments of the day and the workout a religious ritual, we can never escape the i…
Meditation - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Meditation - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Crumbling materialism Luke 23: 33-43 These are truly terrifying words, Lord. You paint a bleak and depressing picture: destruction of the centre of worship, wars, insurrection, earthquakes, famine, epidemics and many more terrifyin…
Prayers for After the Storm
Prayers for After the Storm
by Christine Dutton
Prayers of Intercession and petition for after storms. Prayers for After the Storm Loving God, God of the wind and the waves, God of the stillness and calm, be with us and guide our prayers. Lord, we come to you in the aftermath of the storm. The storm which has uprooted trees, w…
Poem: This is my child
Poem: This is my child
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: This is my child This is my child – and yet he is not mine. He is a special boy and though I fathered him I will not claim him as my own for he belongs to God. The miracle that brought him here was a promise fulfilled, but not to me alone, or to my wife. We are his parents …
Drama: Useless
Drama: Useless
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama: Useless A piece for three voices. The first is a woman, the others preferably men, but not necessarily. Each person reads one line of each paragraph. Follow this with the reading from Micah 5: 2-5a I am a nobody and I come from nowhere. I’m just an ordinary working class p…
Poem: Promises, promises, promises!
Poem: Promises, promises, promises!
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Promises, promises, promises! Promises, promises, promises! The world is littered with them. Promises from politicians, blandly spoken, without knowledge of the problems involved in fulfilling them. Promises from retailers, with assurances that the order is being dealt with…
Monologue: Hannah reflects
Monologue: Hannah reflects
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: Hannah reflects When all you long for is a child of your own, then you see them everywhere. Other women seem to have no problem conceiving and bringing a child into the world. All around are families – some happy, some argumentative, some with no control at all – but f…
Reflection/poem: Afterwards
Reflection/poem: Afterwards
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection / Poem: Afterwards Wait! This cannot be true. This is me, Mary. I’m only a girl. Not even married. You can’t have meant me. You were not real. I’m only dreaming. None of this has happened. And it won’t happen. I can’t be pregnant. Not now. I’m engaged, but not fully ma…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Disarming the Power of Persecution