Friday, December 29, 2023

Bucolic, exotic, horrific : why complex stories matter

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 Mostly our Christmas readings tend to sanitise the historical event with a focus on miracles, angels, light, gifts, bucolic shepherds and e...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Turn Over, Bear Under (the lament and hope of Christmas 2023)

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Christmas in the Ruins . . . choosing to be a doorway to good

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  Christmas Eve Eve . . .since the 24th and 25th will both have major church services, and today is market day, it feels like we are fully i...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

Creativity as an act of both beauty and survival

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This morning I read a quote by musician Jon Batiste, discussing a lullaby he wrote for his wife when she was hospitalised with relapsed leuk...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Global, tangible, contemporary ... what the prophets saw, and we see

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 Week 3 of Advent took us to Isaiah and John the Baptist, two prophetic voices sent to prepare the way for the Messiah. Like most American C...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

When it rains it pours: a season of trouble this Advent

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 Advent season is a fast before the feast of Christmas . In 2023, for perhaps the first time, the "fasting" nature of Advent has b...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Fragments creating a Mosaic

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 Sitting in a circle with ten women who work cross-culturally and sharing prayer requests, some common late-November themes are how we miss ...