I have been thinking about Home ever since I got asked in the Praxis One course to complete the sentence ‘I want the story of my life to be the story of someone who….‘ The […]
Lent Reflections
I stand outside the barred church doors/ hammering with my fists/ while around me/ the world dies.
Blood of Our Children
On Saturday I was part of another Extinction Rebellion action called ‘Blood of Our Children’. Outside Downing Street, we dressed in black, and protesters willing to get arrested symbolically poured fake blood to draw attention […]
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).
Simple Humans
I have been thinking a lot about the words of Behrouz
Boochani in ‘No Friends But The Mountains’
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Considering debt, place & incarnation
Incarnation points us towards our situated-ness, our rooted-ness and our need for belonging within a concrete locality.
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
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.
Thoughts on 2018
Life has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.
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.
Compassion – George
It is what I want to put out into the world and what I try to search for in it.
