Gospels – Page 5 – crookedshore

A Forgotten Memorial – Money

What is the place of money in the story? The religious leaders, contemplate a price to remove a threat to…

Somehow in the story the woman remains anonymous. And the sacrifice she makes of the expensive perfume, may actually deepen…

“She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.” (v8) One of…

“I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be…

The context of this story in Mark 14:1-11 emerges from Jesus call to be alert and watchful, for the Son…

I had the pleasure of leading a reflection at the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland on 25 March. It…

I’m going to be off-line for an indeterminate period, laid up in the Mater Clinic in Dublin undergoing heart surgery…

At Saturday’s breakfast we considered the story of the feeding of the five thousand in John ch 6. We were…

Mark 4:36 There were other boats with himthe day the storm disturbed Galilee.He, bone-tired from teaching, lay still in the…