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Sustainability Reflection

Sustainability: the big picture – what can we do?

A Sunday School Teacher asked her eight eager 10-year-olds if they would give a million dollars to the save the planet. “YES!” they all screamed! “Would you give $1000?” Again they shouted “YES!” “How about $100?” “Oh, YES we would,” they all agreed. “Would you give …. [more]

Just Love

You can’t legislate for love, we know, but here God through Jesus (in this reading) does command us to love. A royal decree you might say. Discovering the difference between what God can and does achieve and what our laws and the sheer might of the world cannot achieve, is one of the great wonders of being human and of being a person of faith. Discovering …. [more to follow – click Title]

Everywhere Present, Specifically Here

I recall when praying beside the 3000-year-old foundations of Solomon’s Temple, in 1982, placing a prayer for world peace in a crevice there. The so-called ‘wailing wall’ has attracted pilgrims from the nations ever since the Temple was destroyed by Rome in 70AD ….

Geniuses 5

This person’s genius settled on my perception slowly, partly because my church friends were disparaging his work as ‘devilish’. Almost literally, because Andrew Lloyd Webber gave us a shrieking Judas, and a barely more peaceful Jesus, and my friends struggled to swallow that. So it was only after some time, and with the sense that maybe I was accessing something heretical and evil, that I first gave Jesus Christ Superstar a hearing. It was stunning ….