Author: stuart

  • If a tree falls in the forest…

    If a tree falls in the forest…

    I’ll  begin with a very old question:  If a tree falls in the forest and no-one is near – Does it make any noise?  Alternatively: If Jesus was raised from the dead, but no-one saw it happen, was he really raised from the dead?  You can think about that for a moment or two.  Two…

  • A New Dawn for the Jesus Divergent

    A New Dawn for the Jesus Divergent

    Today we celebrate the rising to new life of the Christ.  The revelation of God’s continual work in the world.  It is a new dawn.  A new beginning.  You might have been surprised at the choice of Divergent for a film this Lent and Easter.  But it has plenty to say to us – despite…

  • Jesus – Factionless

    So what happens when you don’t fit in? What happens when the society you live in believes you are an outcast or that your face does not fit the picture they would like it to? What happens when a society that nurtured you and brought you into being decides that your views are too radical?…

  • The knowledge to see a different path

    Divergent has been our film this year for Lent, and for the first time, you can watch it when we come to Monday of Holy Week.  A future world has been torn apart by war and a small city society is trying to rebuild it.  You can only belong though if you know who you…

  • Amity: Kindness and Nurture for Mothering Sunday

    So for Mothering Sunday we continue to foray into the world of the book and film divergent. Tris Prior, A member of abnegation, the selfless faction has left family and home and come dauntless. We’ve met Candor who speak the truth at all costs – even when it hurts. And so for Mothering Sunday we…

  • Will the Truth set us Free?

    It is the Third Sunday of Lent – We’ve been looking at Lent through the story of Divergent a book and film of teenage fiction – which like so many of its genre begins with a world torn apart by war with a society attempting to put itself back together.  Five society groups exist called…

  • Have we the Courage of Dewi Sant?

    Ordinary acts of bravery – the courage that brings one person to stand up for another.  In the story book and film of Divergent Tris, a young girl chooses as all young members of this society must, chooses her faction, the group she will live with.  Tris chooses to leave Abnegation, her faction which believes…

  • Jesus, Divergent or Abnegation?

    Jesus, Divergent or Abnegation?

    As we begin Lent it is time to go out into the wilderness… And time to begin a new Film – Divergent. At Christmas eve I suggested that to take the cultural temperature of our time we might delve into some teenage fiction.  Well Divergent isn’t a Christmas film, but it is very much a…

  • Moel y Ci

    Moel y Ci

  • Râs Moel y Ci

    Râs Moel y Ci

    Râs Moel y Ci:  Race no.  7 of Forty @40 Only 33 to go… but all for a great cause  www.umeedpartnership.org.uk