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Lent Reflections

I stand outside the barred church doors/ hammering with my fists/ while around me/ the world dies.

bonhoeffer, brokenness, change, confession, conflict, courage, evil, gideon heugh, Lent, poverty, reflection, reflections, wake up

Blood of Our Children

On Saturday I was part of another Extinction Rebellion action called ‘Blood of Our Children’. Outside Downing Street, we dressed … More

cca, christian climate action, climate breakdown, climate change, extinction rebellion, justice, protest, xr

Re-crucifying Christ

Cone writes about the crucifixion as a first-century lynching, and about how black people facing the state-endorsed terrorism of lynching identified with Jesus; they, “found in the cross the spiritual power to resist the violence they so often suffered” (p22).

black theology, creation, crucifixion, death, environmental theology, grief, James Cone, justice, lynching, non-violent direct action, resistance, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

Simple Humans

I have been thinking a lot about the words of Behrouz
Boochani in ‘No Friends But The Mountains’

asylum, Boochani, human rights, humanity, morality, politics, public debate, public discussion

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East Ham, housing, London, London housing, Newham, politics

Considering debt, place & incarnation

Incarnation points us towards our situated-ness, our rooted-ness and our need for belonging within a concrete locality.

2019, austerity, Brexit, debt, embodiment, incarnation, locality, loneliness, place, relationships, social capital

The Breaking of the Bread

the pulse of hope/ the echo of our name/ and the bread in our teeth/ a cup on our lips / and breathing at our side

awaiting, communion, eucharist, kingdom come, lord's prayer, prayer, sacrament, wine

The Importance of Stories

The emphasis we have on fact means we cannot cope with the idea of a true fictional story. ‘Fictional truth’ or ‘narrative truth’ is just an oxymoron. Hence the confusion with Genesis.

existentialism, fact, narrative, public debate, public discussion, sacred, sacred values, truth, worldview

Thoughts on 2018

Life has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

death, Faith, grateful, gratitude, hope, life, New Year's, reflection, significance, thoughts, uncertainty, worth

Wonder – Julian

Wonder points us to God not just in the Christmas story, but in the Bible, the world and the universe we live in. It also lets us all be little kids again – enjoying a moment.

2018, advent, sacred values, wonder

Compassion – George

It is what I want to put out into the world and what I try to search for in it.

advent, compassion, ideology, sacred, sacred values

Integrity – Katherine

Integrity is the value which I most cherish in the people that I love, and the one I most long to cultivate in my own life.

2018, advent, integrity, Joseph, sacred values, undivided, wholeness

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