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Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap Monday?
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap Monday?
by David Perry
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap MondayReflection accompanying image “Carnaby street easter testimony” Walking down Carnaby Street in London you just can't miss the eye catching skull logo of the Cheap Monday Store. Such death-in-your-face design is an interesti…
Christmas all age service -Opening Prayer
Christmas all age service -Opening Prayer
by Richard Steel
A short gathering prayer for use at a Christmas morning service. Dear Jesus We thank you for coming to earth as a tiny baby. We thank you for coming to earth as the light of the world. We come now - Continues... Also available in PowerPoint - Click Here
Judas Monologue
Judas Monologue
by Michael Docker
A Judas monologue - Judas 'standing at a distance' watching the death throes of Jesus on the cross. Holding in one hand (or miming) a coin, and in the other a piece of bread (as from the Last Supper). Can be read from a central lectern, or acted without a lectern!!): My two hands…
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas
by David Perry
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas Reflection accompanying image “enticed inside Christmas” So near and yet so far; so close and yet so distant: this vibrant Christmas signage may entice shoppers to enter the store, but once inside its extravagant promise will r…
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A) Reflection accompanying image “foxgloves and bee illustrating the morphology of discipleship”. When the sun came out after a day of prolonged rain the foxgloves dripped a…
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only
by David Perry
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only Reflection accompanying image “menkind” Menkind: if only it were not just the name of a store but also a gender specific collective noun expressing a universal truth about male behaviour. How different our experience of the world woul…
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas
by David Perry
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas Reflection accompanying image “odd lonely outcast donkey" As the odd one out and the solitary representative of its kind in a field occupied by a small herd of cattle, this donkey stands alone. Its presence is incongr…
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A) Reflection accompanying image “Difficult path ahead”. "Don't think I've come to make life cozy. I've come to cut—make a sharp knife-cut between son and father, daughter and mother, bride and mothe…
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith - fashionable, desirable and essential (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday)
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith - fashionable, desirable and essential (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith - fashionable, desirable and essential (Sunday before Lent B - Transfiguration Sunday) Reflection accompanying image “Faith fashionable desirable essential” I could not help but notice the irony of the manufacturer's name which frames this display …
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