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Rocky Road through Holy Week
Rocky Road through Holy Week
by catherine beane
Rocky Road Recipe exploring the events of Holy Week / Easter This 'Rocky Road through Holy Week' recipe is a great way to explore the events of Holy Week with children of all ages. Ingredients: 1 Drop of orange oil / flavouring 2 Handfuls of raisins 12 Glace cherries 1 Bag of Min…
Imagining the Lectionary: Preserving the positive image (Easter Day)
Imagining the Lectionary: Preserving the positive image (Easter Day)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Preserving the positive image (Easter Day) Reflection accompanying images “Sinnington anglo saxon cross embedded in wall of parish church” and “Christ crucified built into fabric of the church at Sinnington.” Rumaging through the dusty old attic storeroo…
Ashes to Joy
Ashes to Joy
by Maureen Spinks
Easter Poem - Discovery of resurrection Ashes to Joy! Bereft and desolate, Grief’s weariness slowing steps, Faces wan, eyes red rimmed but now dry. In quiet emptiness and numb distress They come. To fulfil last rites Final duty, care and personal goodbyes; In ordinary memorial ho…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God Redeems Now
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - God Redeems Now
by SPCK - John Goldingay
God Redeems Now Psalm 73 Last night we went to a concert by rock-country-bluegrass-folk artist Steve Earle. I first heard him at Nottingham Rock City when he was still fairly fresh out of prison where he had been for drug-related offenses. Twenty years later in a club in Disneyla…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Enough Punishment Already!
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Enough Punishment Already!
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Enough Punishment Already! Psalm 74 This evening, as I write, will be the beginning of the Jewish year 5772; in other words, on this reckoning the New Year will be the 5772nd year since creation. It will be followed by the Day of Atonement and the Festival of Sukkot. Thinking abo…
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - The Promise of a Poisoned Chalice
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - The Promise of a Poisoned Chalice
by SPCK - John Goldingay
The Promise of a Poisoned Chalice Psalm 75 The news today tells of two men called Abu Elias and Robert who were interviewed as they sat at the bottom of the stairs of the Convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya, a city high in the mountains north of Damascus. It is one of the few communi…
Be strong and very courageous
Be strong and very courageous
by Sally Coleman
A poem reflecting on our need for God's strength. Be strong and very courageous Be strong and very courageous you say… …some mornings it takes all my strength Just to get out of bed! Be strong and very courageous …. …is it courageous just to place one Foot in front of the other, …
Pentecost questions
Pentecost questions
by Sally Coleman
Pondering the confusions that might be surrounding Pentecost. Pentecost Questions What did you feel When he told you To return to Jerusalem, To wait, And to pray? And how did you pray? Were there words to express Your longings, Your confusions, Did ou hurl questions at heaven Dem…
The Living God - Creation as a process: God’s ongoing involvement with the world
The Living God - Creation as a process: God’s ongoing involvement with the world
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Creator of heaven and earth 4 Creation as a process: God’s ongoing involvement with the world Like many, I enjoy the famous story that lies behind the creation of the great statue of David by the artist Michelangelo (1475 –1564). In the late fifteenth century, the Florentine scul…
The Living God - The Trinity and the enrichment of the Christian life