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Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C)
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: I will gather you together and bring you home again (Advent 3C) Reflection accompanying image “Footprints on the beach leading away from a storm ” On that day I will gather you together and bring you home again (Zephaniah 3:20) John said to the crowds th…
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas
by David Perry
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas Reflection accompanying image “enticed inside Christmas” So near and yet so far; so close and yet so distant: this vibrant Christmas signage may entice shoppers to enter the store, but once inside its extravagant promise will r…
Reflection on Romans 12: 3
Reflection on Romans 12: 3
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection on Romans 12: 3 Proper 16 year A ‘My son works on the bins,’ she said with great reluctance and a faint sense of shame. She knew that others there had children with degrees, or who ran their own businesses, or who had achieved greatness in one form or another. ‘He was …
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A) Reflection accompanying image “foxgloves and bee illustrating the morphology of discipleship”. When the sun came out after a day of prolonged rain the foxgloves dripped a…
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only
by David Perry
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only Reflection accompanying image “menkind” Menkind: if only it were not just the name of a store but also a gender specific collective noun expressing a universal truth about male behaviour. How different our experience of the world woul…
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas
by David Perry
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas Reflection accompanying image “odd lonely outcast donkey" As the odd one out and the solitary representative of its kind in a field occupied by a small herd of cattle, this donkey stands alone. Its presence is incongr…
The boy in the Temple