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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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All Things Re-aligned
Christmas sets the centre at the edge. And from this day our world is re-aligned; A tiny seed unfolding in the womb Becomes the source from which we all unfold And flower into being. We are healed, The End begins, the tomb becomes a womb, For now in him all things are...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Disappointed Saturday people
Squeezed between Good Friday and Easter, Ignored by preachers and painters and poets, Saturday lies cold and dark and silent – An unbearable pause between death and life. There are many Saturday people To whom Easter does not come.
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
My gift is me
Persons are the gifts of God to me. They are already wrapped, Some beautifully and others less attractively, Some have been mishandled in the mail; Others come ‘special delivery’. Some are loosely wrapped; others, very tightly enclosed But the wrapping is not the...
Machines are running
All monsters of the deserts, all demons of darkness are here again. Once again people stand face to face with chaos: and what makes it so much more terrible is the fact that the majority do not comprehend what is at hand. For everywhere scientifically informed people...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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The dross which men call gold
Non nobis Domine!— Not unto us, O Lord! The Praise or Glory be Of any deed or word; For in Thy Judgment lies To crown or bring to nought All knowledge or device That Man has reached or wrought. And we confess our blame— How all too high we hold That noise which men...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
When we have nothing to offer
When we are weak, we are strong. When our eyes close on the world, then somewhere within us the bush burns. When we are poor and aware of the inadequacy of our table, it is to that uninvited the guest comes. R.S. Thomas (913-2000), , Counterpoint.
The other one who is awake
There are nights that are so still that I can hear the small owl calling far off and a fox barking miles away. It is then that I lie in the lean hours awake listening to the swell born somewhere in the Atlantic rising and falling, rising and falling wave on wave on...
I wish I were a tree
Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show: I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree: For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. George Herbert (1593-1633),...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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There is always another story
At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end, The delicious story is ripe to tell the intimate friend; Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my friend, there's never smoke without fire. Behind the corpse...
The Mission of God
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The Otherwise Gifted Shame Us
Shame is my name Lame are my feet Shunned is my face My fame is disgrace. Frances M. Young, Brokenness and Blessing.
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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This world of our happiness
Not in Utopia – subterranean fields – Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us – the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all. William Wordsworth (1770-1850), The...