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52 Reflections on Faith - Wisdom: Christ himself
52 Reflections on Faith - Wisdom: Christ himself
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Wisdom: Christ himself Late one evening, as I stood outside one of my churches in Essex talking to a churchwarden, he suddenly said, ‘Listen, I think that’s an owl.’ We craned our necks and pricked our ears into the night for a moment, hoping for another ‘hoot’, but alas it didn’…
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 10 Social Justice (Chapter 7)
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 10 Social Justice (Chapter 7)
by Skylight- Mary C.Earle
Social Justice The emphatic embrace of the Incarnation leads Celtic saints, poets, theologians, and missionaries to strongly voice the social import of the gospel… Taken from Celtic Christian Spirituality by Annotation by Mary C. Earle
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Second before Advent Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Second before Advent Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday before Advent Mark 13: 1-8 Gaze on the stones that are all that remains of the Temple today. They are huge slabs, glaring in the sun, lying there as a heap of blocks, tilted and abandoned where they fell. It is easy to imagine the massive walls and the moulded c…
Refreshed
Refreshed
by Joy Sykes
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Prayers of Growing, Greening and Harvest
Prayers of Growing, Greening and Harvest
by Jonathan Sharp
Six short prayers, including blessings in a Celtic style. God of the fertile field God of the fertile field May we be earthed and flourished in you Christ of the greening garden May we be fresh and vibrant in you Spirit of the hopeful harvest May we bear holy fruits for you Trini…
Tulip
Tulip
by Rachel Marsh
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Spring daisies
Spring daisies
by Joy Sykes
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Beyond this world of doubt and desperation
Beyond this world of doubt and desperation
by Andrew Pratt
Beyond this world of doubt and desperation the seed of love was cast upon this earth, that all might know that love, before creation, had called all human life to come to birth. At first this love was seen through incarnation, God leaving trails of glory, holding grace, to come a…
Hymn: Sinews of hope hold creation together
Hymn: Sinews of hope hold creation together
by Andrew Pratt
Sinews of hope hold creation together, we are created for life, not for death; love is our source and the end of our living, God’s consummation beyond final breath. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: BEDE Metre: 11.10.11.10 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 14/6/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, Lo…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Thursday, Friday Morning
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - Thursday, Friday Morning
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Thursday, Friday Morning Genesis 1:20-25 A whole corner building in the downtown area of our city was recently reconstructed and remodeled, and to my astonishment what opened there was a store that just sells boxes. A friend of ours got a job there and told us that she was also s…
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Cripple
John for Everyone Part 1 - The Healing of the Cripple
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Cripple John 5.1-9a There were two small boys playing in the overgrown garden. The old man who lived in the big house had been ill for many weeks, and though nurses and doctors came and went to the house nobody seemed to bother about what happened in the garden…
52 Reflections on Faith - Pentecost: a deep fire inside
52 Reflections on Faith - Pentecost: a deep fire inside
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
Pentecost: A deep fire inside One of the most moving songs in the popular musical Billy Elliot by Lee Hall and Elton John is ‘Electricity’, sung by Billy at his audition at the Royal Ballet School in London. Set during the 1984 miners’ strike in England, the musical is about a yo…
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 3 Introduction
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 3 Introduction
by Skylight- Mary C.Earle
Introduction Some twenty-five years ago, when I was finishing up my seminary training and wondering what had happened to my prayer life, one of my mentors, Dr. V. Nelle Bellamy, returned from a trip to England with a gift book for me. Titled Celtic Prayers and embellished with il…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 9 Postscript: The climate change debate continues