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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Summer Slaughter
Almost a century, and half a world away The children of Hiroshima were all on holiday; Not dreaming of the holocaust the heavens would release – They weren’t concerned with politics, or even peace. The children of Hiroshima, like youngsters anywhere, Ran out to...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Uninhabited Cross
Not the empty tomb but the uninhabited cross. Look long enough and you will see the arms put on leaves. Not a crown of thorns but a crown of flowers haloing it, with a bird singing as though perched on paradise’s threshold. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000),...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
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After a quick bash
And after this quick bash in the dark You will rise and go, Thinking of how empty you have grown, And whether all the evening’s care in front of mirrors, And the younger boys disowned, Led simply to this. Confined to what you are expected to be, By what you are, Out...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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Pilgrim
There is an island there is no going to but in a small boat the way the saints went, travelling the gallery of the frightened faces of the long-drowned, munching the gravel of its beaches. So I have gone up the salt lane to the building with the stone altar and the...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
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Waiting for God
Face to face? Ah, no God; such language falsifies the relation. Nor side by side, nor near you, nor anywhere in time and space... Young I pronounced you. Older I still do, but seldomer now, leaning far out over an immense depth, letting your name go and...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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Doctrine and life bring a strong regard
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazy glass: Yet in the temple thou dost him afford This glorious and transcendent place, To be a window, through thy grace. But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie, Making thy life to shine...
The Mission of God
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Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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Eternity awaits you
I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had the treasure in it. I realised now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not...