Poems and readings to reflect on and shape your faith
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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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War knows no Power?
Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest He who has found our hid security, Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest, And heard our word, ‘Who is so safe as we?’ We have found safety with all things undying, The winds, and morning, tears of men and...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Christmas: Poetry or Prose?
Christmas Eve! Five Hundred poets waited, pen Poised above paper, for the poem to arrive, bells ringing. It was because The chimney was too small, because they had ceased to believe, the poem had passed them by on its way out into oblivion, leaving the doorstep bare...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
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Slope to perfection
Because we cannot be clever and honest and are inventors of things more intricate than the snowflake – Lord have mercy. Because we are full of pride in our humility, and because we believe in our disbelief – Lord have mercy. Because we will protect ourselves from...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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Get a glory
Oh you gotta get a glory! In the work you do, A Hallelujah chorus In the heart of you. Paint or tell a story, Sing or shovel coal, But you gotta get a glory Or the...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
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Our Saving Victim
In making victims we are judged, until we turn to the saving Victim. We are insistently and relentlessly, in Jerusalem, confronted… with a victim who is our victim. When we make victims, when we embark on condemnation, exclusion, violence, the diminution or oppression...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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Praying in a deserted church
In this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a reply. It is a room I enter from which someone has just gone, the vestibule for the arrival of one who has not yet come. R.S. Thomas...
The Mission of God
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Your Kingdom Come
It’s a long way off, but inside it there are quite different things going on: festivals at which the poor man is king and the consumptive is healed; mirrors in which the blind look at themselves and loves look at them back; and industry is for mending the bent bones...
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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Taking the world into my arms
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder If I have made of my life something particular, and real, I don’t want to find myself...