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friends, FOES and families - Introduction
friends, FOES and families - Introduction
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Introduction Who endowed the heart with wisdom, or gave understanding to the mind? (Job 38.36, NIV 1984) This is a book about relationships, particularly as recounted in the Scriptures. Using both Old and New Testament characters, some less well remembered than others, we will ch…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Introduction
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Introduction
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Introduction This is the second in the series of Gospel reflections following the Anglican Church’s lectionary, and it follows the same simple pattern as before, which even busy people can find time for as they approach Sunday. It will take no more time to read than would a quick…
Still Caring - Acknowledgments
Still Caring - Acknowledgments
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
Acknowledgements Still Caring Christian meditations and prayers One evening at church, I noticed that a friend was weeping. She had been having a really rough time trying to care at home for her husband after a spell in hospital. Now she was at the end of her tether and strugglin…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Closing
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Closing
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
God is a word we use, and we think we know what it means. But, in truth, God is always far beyond our understanding. We can only know God by unknowing. We can only offer our willingness and our wonder. This kind of constant and open inquiry is an intense intimacy through which we…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - A Stone
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - A Stone
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We pick up shells and stones on the beach because something about them is pleasing. We leave them on our shelves and windowsills to touch now and then and to enjoy again. But to make something a real presence in our lives we must use it often and get to know it intimately. Many p…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Care of Things
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Care of Things
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
The things we use daily serve our needs, and we in turn must take care of them. When such care is not haphazard, not just getting through chores, but becomes a way to pay attention, we may find we live with things that grow to be luminous for us. From daily use they become full o…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving Nature
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - Receiving Nature
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
Under every stone and in every stump we can find burgeoning life. Tiny life swims in a thimble full of water. With eyes that can see, there is unstoppable life in every nook and cranny. God’s joy is expressed in such variety that not even one snowflake will be exactly like anothe…
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
Simple Ways - Towards The Sacred - To Speak
by SPCK - Gunilla Norris
We often forget that who we are speaks to others all the time, whether we open our mouths or not. From time to time our being may be silent and still, yet it emanates. It speaks without words. For some this awareness leads to self-consciousness. They feel too exposed, too vulnera…
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing Stories rather than miracle stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing Stories rather than miracle stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Healing stories rather than miracle stories The problem is that many will see the Gospel stories as miracle stories. So are they really healing stories? Here, for example, is the first such story in Mark 1.21–28: They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbat…
A Bit Like Jesus - Touching the stigmatized
A Bit Like Jesus - Touching the stigmatized
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care Touching the stigmatized Many have found an important precedent here for how we should care properly for those with AIDS. As seen in section 10, some early responses to AIDS were inept and even hypocritical. Today many religious agencies working among those living wit…
friends, FOES and families - And she lived with her mother-in-law: Ruth and Naomi