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The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Beginning
The Womens' Bible Commentary - The Beginning
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Beginning Acts begins with an anticonquest ideology that “anesthetizes and sanctifies the exploitative act to make it acceptable” (Dube, 60). Through a command of Jesus (1:8), Luke authorizes Jesus’ followers to travel to other lands and bear witness…
Strange tongues
Strange tongues
by Marjorie Dobson
This poem explores our understanding of the ability to speak in tongues, given to the disciples at Pentecost, by relating it to our understanding, or otherwise, of the language of music. This item will download as 12041011527558.doc Extract: I cannot read music. Those lines and d…
The Act of Prayer Year C - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
The Act of Prayer Year C - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
by BRF - John Birch
Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C Opening prayer In our fellowship together, our singing and our prayer, we hear your voice whisper into our lives, ‘See, I am doing a new thing!’ God of new beginnings, grant us a new heart for worship, a new heart for your people, a new love for our ne…
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 1 Foreword
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 1 Foreword
by Skylight- Mary C.Earle
Foreword A foreword is a word before other words. It is a word that prepares the way. If I were to offer one word to prepare the way for the many beautiful words of Mary Earle’s Celtic Christian Spirituality, it would be “grace-filled.” Her words bring to life the essential wisdo…
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 WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Origin of John the Baptist and Jesus
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Origin of John the Baptist and Jesus
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Origin of John the Baptist and Jesus (Luke 1) Against this background of the role of women in Luke, one can examine in more detail passages unique to Luke that focus on women. Three women appear in this section (Elizabeth, Mary of Nazareth, and Anna) in roles far more powerfu…
LWPT Meditations - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B