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Poem - We read of cultures from the past
Poem - We read of cultures from the past
by Andrew Pratt
We read of cultures from the past where slaves were normal, commonplace. Today we look with different eyes, to keep a slave would bring disgrace. Yet people still are caught and sold, removed from family and friends, then bought, mistreated and abused. For them life’s horror neve…
We read of cultures from the past
We read of cultures from the past
by Andrew Pratt
We read of cultures from the past where slaves were normal, commonplace. Today we look with different eyes, to keep a slave would bring disgrace. Yet people still are caught and sold, removed from family and friends, then bought, mistreated and abused. For them life’s horror neve…
Open with God Book - December - International Day of Disabled Persons
Open with God Book - December - International Day of Disabled Persons
by Christine Odell
December – International Day of Disabled Persons (3 December) Calendar of Prayers Reading 2 Corinthians 12.7b-12 Understanding God, you know how it is to be unable to do all you would like because you have chosen not to force us to love and obey you. You know because you are disa…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 20 Paul’s Personal Freedom and Responsibility
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 20 Paul’s Personal Freedom and Responsibility
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Paul’s Personal Freedom and Responsibility In the previous section (8:1-13) Paul presses home two points in his discussion of food offered to idols: (1) You know idols do not exist. Therefore, you have the freedom and right to eat idol food. (2) Your responsibility to love other …
Open with God Book - March - Refugee Week (week 11)
Open with God Book - March - Refugee Week (week 11)
by Christine Odell
MARCH – Refugee Week (week 11) Matthew 25.31-46 Display suitable pictures and newspaper clippings. There will be a time of silence during this prayer, as we imagine what it is like to be a refugee. Shelter, food and drink,safety, community and care: these are things we need, our …
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 18 Sexual Practice in Harmony with the Gospel
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 18 Sexual Practice in Harmony with the Gospel
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Sexual Practice in Harmony with the Gospel By way of review, the bare bones of this second essay are: 2.1. Immorality and the Church (4:17–5:6a) 2.2. (Three Roadblocks: Leaven, Immorality and the Law Courts) (5:6b–6:8) 2.3. Theology of Sexual Practice: Kingdom Ethics (6:9-12) 2.4…
Meeting God in Paul - 1 Outsiders and insiders: Paul’s social world
Meeting God in Paul - 1 Outsiders and insiders: Paul’s social world
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Outsiders and insiders:Paul’s social world When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order ‘Release those men.’ The jailer reported these instructions to Paul: ‘The magistrates have sent an order for your release. Now you are free to go in peace.’ But Paul …
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8d Responses to questions
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8d Responses to questions
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Responses to questions Q: You touched briefly on over-population in the world. China has imposed a one child policy for years, without which they would be in serious trouble now. Is this something that should be considered elsewhere?…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 20 Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - Proper 20 Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Lectionary reflections - Year A Ordinary Time Proper 20 Jonah 3.10—4.11 Philippians 1.21–30 Matthew 20.1–16 Did Jonah ever get the point? The author deliberately chooses an open ending. Jonah knows his God quite well, but that doesn’t mean he has to like him. He thinks God is rid…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 10 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 10 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 10 Mark 6: 14-29 Gaze on all the Herods of this world and all the gratuitous violence they unleash. Gaze on all the ethnic cleansing that has gone on down the ages – innocents massacred, women raped and the elderly displaced, staring at us every day from our newspapers, dr…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 17 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 17 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 17 Exodus 3.1–15 Romans 12.9–21 Matthew 16.21–28 Peter, like Moses, hid his face, afraid to look upon God. He wanted to see God’s messianic movement launched, but not like this; Moses had wanted to see Israel liberated, and h…
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