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Neighbour
Neighbour
by One Small Barking Dog
A thought provoking movie about who is our neighbour? Suitable as a sermon or discussion starter, a visual prayer or a conclusion to a service on Love your Neighbour. About One Small Barking Dog OSBD (one small barking dog) began its life within a Church based urban youth work se…
Poem-Communion
Poem-Communion
by Valerie Anslow
A poem composed while running the Great North Run for Alzheimer's Society. Communion Click! Smile. Look this way. Click! Celluloid snap shots of moments Suspended in time. Open the pages into the past and remember. Memories caught in sepia, monochrome, colour. Open up the file of…
Imagining the Lectionary: If you want to you can cleanse me (Epiphany 6B)
Imagining the Lectionary: If you want to you can cleanse me (Epiphany 6B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: If you want to you can cleanse me (Epiphany 6B) Reflection accompanying images “If you want to you can cleanse me” and “Hand reaching out to another” A leper came to him, begging on his knees, "If you want to, you can cleanse me." Deeply moved, Jesus put…
Rule, rule, rules
Rule, rule, rules
by Marjorie Dobson
Rules, rules, rules. Rules, rules, rules. Rules that are sensible. Rules that are practical. Rules to protect the vulnerable. Rules to check criminal behaviour. Rules to promote a right sense of living. Rules to encourage discipline. Rules to keep society on an even keel. Rules t…
Psalms for Everyone - The Marriage Challenge
Psalms for Everyone - The Marriage Challenge
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Marriage Challenge Psalm 45 When you’re young and you get married, you have to get your parents’ approval, but when you’re old and you get married, you have to get your children’s approval. So I was nervous about telling my sons that I was getting married again eighteen month…
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Whose is the Kingdom of God?
Mark The Peoples' Bible Commentary - Whose is the Kingdom of God?
by BRF - Dick France
Whose is the Kingdom of God? The ‘kingdom of God’ is mentioned twice in these verses, and three times more in verses 23–25. The phrase, as we have seen, means ‘God’s rule’, and what the disciples are being forced to face in this series of incidents are some of the radically diffe…
Arthur's Call - Foreword
Arthur's Call - Foreword
by SPCK - Frances Young
Foreword ‘Arthur is seriously brain-damaged and unable to develop normally.’ This was what Frances Young was told when Arthur was a few months old. Frances, then a mother with her first child, now a Methodist minister and former Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Univers…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Divine Purpose, and Limited Role, of Ruling Authorities
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - The Divine Purpose, and Limited Role, of Ruling Authorities
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Divine Purpose, and Limited Role, of Ruling Authorities ROMANS 13.1-7 When you hear the word ‘policeman’, what is your instant reaction? For many people growing up in Britain when I was young, the policeman was a friendly and familiar figure. (There weren’t many policewomen a…
LWPT Meditations - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Amos 8:1-12 Colossians 1:15-28 Luke 10:38-42 We have almost forgotten that Christianity is a radical phenomenon. In the UK – even in our present pluralistic society – Church and State are closely linked. On national occasions we are …
Deep Church Rising - 2: Modernity and Postmodernity
Deep Church Rising - 2: Modernity and Postmodernity
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
2 Modernity and Postmodernity The Rise of the Secular World Philosopher Charles Taylor put the question like this: “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, 1500 in our Western society, while in [the twenty-first century] many of us find this not only easy, …
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - ‘UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!’
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - ‘UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!’
by BRF - Dick France
‘UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!’ MARK 1: 40-45 The man’s complaint may not have been full-scale ‘leprosy’ as we use the word, but it would be an unpleasant skin-disease which was regarded as infectious, and therefore made the sufferer ‘unclean’…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Experiencing God in togetherness