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Luke for Everyone - The Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus
Luke for Everyone - The Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus Luke 1.26-38 Ask a newspaper editor what sort of stories will sell the most copies, and three categories come swiftly to mind: sex, royalty and religion. If they can be combined, so much the better.’ POP STAR’S LOVE CHILD’ is good; ‘PRINCESS…
Imagining the Lectionary: Easter set in stone
Imagining the Lectionary: Easter set in stone
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Easter set in stone Reflection accompanying image “Cornish Celtic Cross with Christ Crucified and Risen set against dramatic sky” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord” (John 20:18) For centuries this figure of …
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Easter Day Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Easter Day - Year A Meditation on Matthew 28: 1-10 Gaze as the women come over the brow of the hill. In the early morning shadows, everything looks bland and blank, bleached of colour. Smell the dewy earth, feel the hem of their skirts damp and smeared with dust. The rocky hillsi…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Easter Exodus 14.10–31; 15.20–1 Acts 5.27–32 John 20.19–31 People are very good at doubting. We seem to be able to move with effortless ease from the utmost certainty to the utmost doubt within moments. In the reading from Exodus today, just remember what has…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Sunday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: in Jesus, crucified and risen, you have shown us your face. We worship you, O Holy One, present to Moses in the burning bush, to Isaiah in the temple,...
embodying mark - Epilogue: Embodying Mark
embodying mark - Epilogue: Embodying Mark
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
Epilogue: Embodying Mark The Gospel of Mark offers us the possibility of a future that is not sorted, not contained, not resolved, and in doing that, it comes alongside people for whom that is the case, which at some time or another is each of us. In this way the Gospel is both w…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 10 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 10 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 10 Amos 7: 7-15 Ephesians-1: 3-14 Mark 6: 14-29 ‘The letter to the Ephesians sets the life of the Christian Church in the context of the cosmic plan of God. The letter will go on to give quite detailed advice about how Christians should live together, day to day, but it is…
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