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Poem: Mirrored
Poem: Mirrored
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Mirrored In the mirror, reflected, see that face you know, or think you know. Study carefully. Mark each line, laughter or wrinkle-grown. Note the colour of eyes, lips and hair. Take into account that the image you see is not the one that others know. You see a reflection o…
Reflection: Favouritism
Reflection: Favouritism
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Favouritism Were you ever the last one to be chosen for a team and really hurt because all the others were picked before you? Were you ever in a class at school when someone else was the teacher’s pet and you always wondered why? Did you ever walk into a room, dressed…
Poem/reflection: What about you?
Poem/reflection: What about you?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Reflection: What about you? When we are challenged by some of the words of Jesus and find them difficult to accept in the context of today’s world, how do we respond when Jesus then says, ‘Do you wish to go away also?’ Do we leave with alacrity, glad of a chance to escape? D…
Reflection: Responsibility
Reflection: Responsibility
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Responsibility If, in order to make the road straight and level for God to come, we have to fill in the valleys and lower the hills, where will the heralds find a mountain to stand on to proclaim the good news? Or is it that the good news must come first and be shoute…
Dialogue/Drama: Trinity
Dialogue/Drama: Trinity
by Andrew Pratt
Dialogue/Drama: Trinity (a piece for two voices) Male voice: They say things always come in threes, but so does my confusion. Or is this all illusion? They say that God is one, but that Jesus Christ his son is yet another one. A God that is. But twisting things still further, say…
Mark The People's Commentary - More trouble on the Sabbath
Mark The People's Commentary - More trouble on the Sabbath
by BRF - Dick France
More trouble on the Sabbath The encounter in the cornfields may have been just a chance meeting which gave rise to an argument. But this time there is certainly nothing accidental about the confrontation in the synagogue. It almost looks as though the man has been ‘planted’ to pr…
Arthur's Call - Creation
Arthur's Call - Creation
by SPCK - Frances Young
4 Creation In creation there is fragility and vulnerability; that is the nature of creation. That was one of the wise sayings collected at our first L’Arche meeting. My original anguished question had been, ‘How can I go on believing in a good Creator God when something so drasti…
Poem: Signs of the times
Poem: Signs of the times
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Signs of the times Couldn’t they see the signs? Why didn’t they understand the disruption that Jesus had brought, would bring? This good news was bound to set the world on fire; bound to cause division amongst families; bound to turn the world on its head. Continues... ©Mar…
Poem: Too busy?
Poem: Too busy?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Too busy? Busy-ness denotes duty and duty demands dedication and dedication inspires devotion: but busy-ness can also hide emptiness, mask loneliness, produce resentment, lead to self-imposed martyrdom and miss those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to listen and learn. Con…
Drama: What do we learn from the Psalms?
Drama: What do we learn from the Psalms?
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama: What do we learn from the Psalms? Two people are ready to read the Bible – one at a lectern or desk, one in the pulpit, if possible. The text is written for A being a woman and B being the preacher, but could easily be adapted. However, the last line does indicate that B w…
Hymn: As Jesus faced his closest friends
Hymn: As Jesus faced his closest friends
by Marjorie Dobson
As Jesus faced his closest friends and asked them,’Who am I?’ ‘You are the Christ, the one who comes,’ was Peter’s sure reply. But Jesus turned to speak to them of torture and of pain and Peter could not bear those words and urged him, ‘turn again.’ Then Peter heard Christ’s shar…
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Poll Tax
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Poll Tax
by BRF - Dick France
The POLL TAX MARK 12: 13-17 A loaded question When the Romans deposed Archelaus, the son of Herod, from his kingship in Judea and imposed direct rule from Rome, one of the most resented by-products was the imposition of a poll tax on all adult Jewish males, to be paid to the Roma…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Gender, Circumcision, and Conversion
The Women's Bible Commentary - Gender, Circumcision, and Conversion
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Gender, Circumcision, and Conversion The third movement of Acts opens with a gendered question: whether uncircumcised men may join The Way. Circumcision is a gendered question, and in non-Jewish circles it was viewed as a kind of “unmanning,” or genital mutilation…
Poem: Importance of humility
Poem: Importance of humility
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Importance of humility Importance of humility? Seems to be contradictory. Depending on your point of view, of course. Important folk have power and wealth and rarely move about by stealth, seeking to use their fame as a resource. Continues... ©Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Reflection: Strange choices