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Category: Film
The Way and the Transfiguration
If you expect me to tell you to get out and climb a mountain this week in order that you’re face shine enough to suggest to those around you that you have been face to face with God, as Moses and Jesus have in the Bible story of the Transfiguration then you’ll be disappointed. …
Welcome to the feast
Matthew’s parable of the marriage feast (Matt. 22. 1-14) has its origins in something much older. Luke has a version of it too, both probably added to it in order to say something to their communities. Matthew to the Jews, Luke to a wider audience. So the great supper in Luke becomes a Marriage feast…
One EASTER Day
During Lent I’ve been reflecting each week on the film One Day. It is a story about love, life, death and resurrection. It doesn’t describes specifically the events of our Easter story at all – however, it does give us a window into the ebb and flow of two ordinary lives lived in and out…
One Day won't last forever
Passion Sunday for me is about being uncomfortable in a comfortable place. A bolt hole, a place of refuge, a place to go before a difficult encounter. A favourite cafe. A bench on a hill. A place with friends where one can be natural, uninhibited, perhaps. A place to relax and let the hair down. …
Healing the Hunger Games
For the Conwy County Civic Service 2016. Around ten years ago I was in Liverpool for Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter Sunday. We visited the Anglican Cathedral, took the tour, climbed the tower and looked back towards Wales. I remember a conversation after lunch with a good friend, John, a priest working…
One Day – in the City
So if the wilderness doesn’t get you, perhaps that fox in the city will. In the reading from Luke today Jesus compares Herod to a fox and the people of Jerusalem as a hen’s brood – Jesus of course is the would be mother hen, protecting the people, but they reject him! I’ve been slowly…
One Day in the wilderness
And so begins the long dark teatime of the soul – or Lent as we call it. To counter the drab feelings that this season can throw up, I like to indulge in a book. You’ve been offered a number of worthy titles already, however, the title I’d like to reflect on for Lent would…
A Sanctuary and a Light
Church Hostel Bangor is up for sale. aka The Anglican Chaplaincy, more affectionately: AngChap or simply for those of us who lived and worked there ‘home from home’. We were always walking a tightrope whilst juggling the twin identities of this place, Hostel and Chaplaincy. Whether doing the accounts and applying for money, or justifying…
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…