Friday’s Despair and Sunday’s Hope – a Reflection for Good Friday
Opening Music “Burnt Over District”, Hem, from the album Funnel Cloud When I was a young man I heard a…
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What Do These Stones Mean? – The Story of the Skainos Worship Space
What I had prepared to say on Sunday morning in Skainos, if time hadn’t been so pressing.*************************** Welcome home. When…
The Patriarch as Tyrant
“say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be…
City Futures – the Maternal City
I’m reading the Old Testament prophets for descriptions of the City and wondering about contemporary analogues. I want to read…
Ched Myers on the Resurrected Jesus
The resurrected Jesus appears first as a Stranger – indeed as one needing hospitality. Let this be a Christological lesson…
Sunny Saturday
162_0316, originally uploaded by crookedshore. walking in the air on the crookedshore
The Swell Season – High Hope
This is not on their new album, but what a beaut. Picked this up on the ever excellent I am…
The Tables are Turned
In Genesis 16 Sarai is in the place of Abraham, and he plays the role of the Pharaoh. In the…
Poppies & Remembrance Again Again
I’ll be wearing a white poppy again today, just as I did last year (and here). My annual struggles with…
Big Win at the Vuelta
It’s been a great year for Irish cycling and the emerging talent is such that the country can begin to…