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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Have Not Found A Woman
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Have Not Found A Woman
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Have Not Found A Woman I just had a message from a young friend who will be in town next week and wants to come to see us. It’s only a few months since she emailed to tell us that she had maybe found the man of her dreams, a man whose instincts about Christian ministry match he…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Belong to My Love, and His Desire Is toward Me
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Belong to My Love, and His Desire Is toward Me
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Belong to My Love, and His Desire Is toward Me I once had to review a commentary on the Song for a journal. The author assumed that the Song is about the relationship between a man and a woman and dismissed the idea that under the surface it’s about the relationship between Chr…
Jeremiah for everyone - The Big One
Jeremiah for everyone - The Big One
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Big One One time when my elder son and his family visited us in California, there was an earthquake of the kind that you can feel but that doesn’t cause much damage, though it causes some unease if you’re used to the stability of London…
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…
Jeremiah for everyone - The Perilous Position of Prophet and Priest
Jeremiah for everyone - The Perilous Position of Prophet and Priest
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Perilous Position of Prophet and Priest Today we had a bumper crop of birthdays to celebrate at church; I was tempted to ask people to stand up if they were not having a birthday this week. As a wondrous coincidence, the Gospel reading was the story of a birthday party…
52 Reflections on Faith - Transfiguration: shining with God’s love
52 Reflections on Faith - Transfiguration: shining with God’s love
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Transfiguration: shining with God’s love Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the whole world were to shine with the love of God? That sounds idealistic, doesn’t it? If anyone actually said that, you might wonder whether they had read the newspapers lately or were at all aware of what was…
Jeremiah for everyone - More a Summons than a Vocation
Jeremiah for everyone - More a Summons than a Vocation
by SPCK - John Goldingay
More a Summons than a Vocation Last week I took part in a conference on God, the church, and disability. One participant was a woman who has been ordained a priest, but she has a speech impediment that makes it hard to understand what she says, and she has had difficulty finding …
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 23 New Covenant Sacraments and Idolatry
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 23 New Covenant Sacraments and Idolatry
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
New Covenant Sacraments and Idolatry No Identification This is the third homily in Paul’s trilogy on identification with culture. Paul first told his readers to accommodate to everyone and become “all things to all people.” He then reflected on the Hebrew sacramental past, and hi…
The Second Intercessions Handbook - (42) PRAYER TREE
The Second Intercessions Handbook - (42) PRAYER TREE
by SPCK - John Pritchard
The visual impact of a small, bare ‘tree’ can be considerable. Like a Christmas tree, it can be the bearer of our prayers, and the act of writing and hanging a prayer on the tree can be a satisfying way of participating in prayer for all ages...
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 11 Christian Unity Paul, Apollos and Cephas as One
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 11 Christian Unity Paul, Apollos and Cephas as One
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Christian Unity Paul, Apollos and Cephas as One Paul now describes himself as a “master builder.” A good master builder can exercise his or her authority by becoming a servant. In fact, that authority, when exercised through servanthood, is in a marvellous way profoundly attracti…
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - BESIDE the SEASIDE
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - BESIDE the SEASIDE
by BRF - Dick France
BESIDE the SEASIDE MARK 3: 7-12 The ‘sea’, here as elsewhere in Mark’s story, is of course the Lake of Galilee, a large fresh- water inland lake, enclosed by hills, and the scene of the thriving fishing industry from which Jesus has already drawn four of his followers…
John The People's Commentary - I Am the Bread of Life