by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
Give me the priest, these graces shall possess: Of an Ambassador, the just address, A Father’s tenderness, a Shepherd’s care, A Leader’s courage which the cross can bear, A Ruler’s arm, a Watchman’s wakeful eye, A Pilot’s skill, the helm in storms to ply, A Fisher’s...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
I was vicar of large things in a small parish. Small-minded I will not say; there were depths in some of them I shrank back from, wells that the word ‘God’ fell into and died away, and for all I know is still falling. Who goes for water to such must prepare for a long...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Believers
… ‘Crippled soul,’ do you say? Looking at him from the mind’s height; ‘limping through life on his prayers. There are other people in the world sitting at table contented, though the broken body and the shed blood are not on the menu’ ‘let it be so,’ I say. ‘Amen and...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Mission
People talking without speaking People hearing without listening ‘Fools’, said I, ‘You do not know Silence like a cancer grows.’ The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. Paul Simon (1942-),...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Mission
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, Knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities. We...
