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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…
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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?…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How to transfigure a poppy seed
For Transfiguration Sunday: Oh Peter, when will you learn? A booth is a resting place of twigs and branches woven together to form a temporary dwelling. Like the willow domes perhaps in the garden of our schools. I like to call them ipods. you sit inside one and tune in to the inner music. Hence…
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A heart for creation, or just for ourselves?
Today is Creation Sunday. I’m not going to tell you how wonderful it is to be outdoors or tell you how much the psalmists sing the praises of the created and creator. But I want to ask a simple question. Do we have a heart for creation or do we only have a heart for…
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The Needle Gate affair
There is a gate in a wall not far from Brynrefail, Let’s just say that it is rather on the narrow side. Only the very slimly built shall pass, and, sideways at that. There are a number of things you could do to enter that footpath. You could, if you really wished to get through…