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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - The Distressing Dynamics of Wisdom and Power
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - The Distressing Dynamics of Wisdom and Power
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Distressing Dynamics of Wisdom and Power Several days a week I find myself reporting to my wife something from the news with the explicit or implicit comment, “How can people be so stupid?” This week it’s the fact that Western forces in Afghanistan had burned some copies of t…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - The Secret of Life Is...
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - The Secret of Life Is...
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Secret of Life Is… We were in a bar last night to listen to a band playing blues. Behind and alongside us were people who at 8:30 were already rather the worse for wear. My wife commented that you could find some of these same people here every night…
52 Reflections on Faith - Icons: Looking through a window
52 Reflections on Faith - Icons: Looking through a window
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Icons: Looking through a window Icons can be a very powerful aid to prayer. They’re mostly found in Greek, Russian and other Orthodox churches but in the last few decades they’ve started to appear in the UK in Anglican churches and cathedrals…
52 Reflections on Faith - Love your enemies: Israelis and Palestinians
52 Reflections on Faith - Love your enemies: Israelis and Palestinians
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Love your enemies: Israelis and Palestinians It’s well known that Christianity tells us to love our neighbours. The expression ‘love thy neighbour’ has a special place in the English language and there was once a British TV sitcom with exactly that title…
Pentecost - The Valley of Dry Bones - No Text
Pentecost - The Valley of Dry Bones - No Text
by Andy Lindley
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism
Simply Good News - The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Competing Gospels of Rationalism and Romanticism The second problem has infected both the church and the world for the last two or three hundred years at least. Again, this is not the place to explain how all the complicated ideas in modern European and American thought came …
The Living God - The Trinity and the enrichment of the Christian life
The Living God - The Trinity and the enrichment of the Christian life
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Mystery or muddle? The Trinity 5 The Trinity and the enrichment of the Christian life I was invited to give a lecture at Aberystwyth University in north Wales a few years back. How best to get there from Oxford, I wondered? Travelling by train turned out to be a bad idea as I wou…
Occasions for Alleluia - Seeing with the eyes of the heart
Occasions for Alleluia - Seeing with the eyes of the heart
by SPCK - David Adam
Seeing with the eyes of the heart ‘Good-bye,’ said the fox. ‘And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.’ The little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. (Antoine…
GOD's rich Pattern - My best friend
GOD's rich Pattern - My best friend
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
My best friend It was Princess Diana who famously once said, ‘There were three of us in this marriage.’ In our case there certainly were – namely, Ralph, myself and Harvey, our chocolate English Cocker Spaniel. He came into our life when he was eleven weeks old. Ralph and I had a…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Time Year A Go and tell others! John 20: 19-31 I’ll never forget the first time we saw Jesus after his resurrection. It was the first day of the week. We’d spent all Sabbath moping around and wondering what to do with ourselves; after three years…
Imagining the Lectionary: Branching Out (Easter 5B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Branching Out (Easter 5B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Branching Out (Easter 5B) Reflection accompanying images “I am the vine you are the branches”, “Old Victorian Greenhouse detail” and “Old Victorian Greenhouse with gardener potting plants” Jesus had a photographer's eye. Because his teaching and conversa…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - An Implausible Promise
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - An Implausible Promise
by SPCK - John Goldingay
An Implausible Promise Genesis 13: 14-18 I can recall two promises God made to me that seemed unlikely to be fulfilled. Both date from about the time I became principal of a theological college in England, which in U.S. terms is a cross between being a seminary president, provost…
LWPT Meditations - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C