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Eh Jesus? Yes Peter? They’re going to kill you for that Jesus!
After the flags and the palm branches and the manic crowd laying their cloaks in the road, the so called triumphal entry looks a little different the morning after. It’s a bit like a party at which something unwelcome has happened half way through, or someone uninvited turns up late and a little too drunk. …
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The Jesus – Jerusalem / Prada – Paris dilemma
I want to offer you an image, a tableaux, a freeze frame image if you like from The Devil Wears Prada. Andrea is standing in the road with Nate her boyfriend, or I should say, just about to be ex-boyfriend. She has to make a choice. She has been offered a chance to go to…
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The Mother of all days
Today is Mothering Sunday. What do we associate with this day apart from the cards, chocolates and flowers that abound for Mothers’ Day – an altogether different celebration? Mothers’ Union – a gathering of mothers, a force to be reckoned with – campaigning for women, children and family life issues. Being Mother – the idea…
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Moments of clarity at the well of life
Everyone I suspect has had at least one experience in their life which changes them. A seminal moment if you like, or a moment of clarity. I have had a number of them, and it’s not that i’ve been going looking, they don’t seem to happen if you intentionally go out to have one –…
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The Prada Saga continues: by night…
Poor Nicodemus. Perhaps he was the one who arrived at the Rabbi’s meeting late? Did he lose out on the pulling of straws? Maybe he wanted to speak to Jesus privately for himself? Whatever the reason, he seeks out Jesus under cover of darkness and has a truly strange conversation. Of course when listening to…
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The devil wears the wilderness well
The devil wears the wilderness well. Devil attacks when it’s easy – when we are vulnerable and in need. Our basic desires are attacked with temptation: Bread for the hungry. Riches for the poor. Power for the weak. But is this true: What is it the hungry truly need, but any meal. What do the…
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Oh would you just listen!
I’ve been walking in the company of ghosts for the past few weeks, spending time in burial grounds and a number of sacred sites in preparation to write about how we deal with such places. The transfiguration – a traditional reading for the Sunday before Lent, is a reading about being in the company of…
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Dirty Carrots and the Kingdom of Heaven
Carrots, which do you buy? I’d like to suggest that it is the ‘dirty carrots’ that can help to bring closer the kingdom of God. Today is Creation Sunday, and tomorrow begins Fairtrade Fortnight. It seems an appropriate time therefore to dwell on our relationship with the earth and all that we consume from it.…
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Jesus on Jeremy Vine
The Jeremy vine show on Radio two can be summed up (and it’s a bit of a caricature I know…) as follows: Take the ten most opinionated people from across britain and give them an open microphone on a live radio show to discuss (not sure that discuss is the right word) topical issues of…
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Pimping the ride of compassion?
It seemed as good a title as any… You don’t light a lamp and put a bowl over it says Jesus. The Twitterati with thanks to @thechurchmouse who came up with a list of modern equivalents for this message: No one turns on the light then shuts his eyes Nobody has one of the world’s…