The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
This morning I am moved by Wilfred Owen’s ‘disloyal’ exposure of the deceitfulness of the State that calls on its young people…
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Releasing a Man from Violence 6: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
I wonder if our struggle to make sense of this strange story, beyond the simplistic “Jesus heals us” bit, is…
Releasing a Man from Violence 5: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
Then finally, again, there is the healed man. The story ends where it began with the man begging Jesus again…
Releasing a Man from Violence 4: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
The keepers of the pigs are evangelists of a sort, who rush off from the scene of extraordinary happenings to…
Releasing a Man from Violence 3: The Story of Legion 5:1-18
There’s a lot of begging going on in this story. The man begs Jesus (5:10); the spirits beg Jesus (5:12);…
Releasing a man from violence 2: the story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
There are a number of men in our group with experience of security and insight into military history, so this…
Releasing a Man from Violence 1: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
The morning’s bible study began over breakfast with the usual group and a familiar story, albeit one that took on some…
Praying Legs for Belfast
A famous photograph from 1965 features Martin Luther King Jr at the head of a civil rights march in the…