Advent is a good time to remember that the Bible we read is not a peaceful read. It is a text borne of trauma, displacement, and loss. The ancient writers who penned sacred scripture — and the vast majority of characters who populate its pages — were not, by and large, history’s winners. They were the persecuted. The dislocated. The enslaved. The desperate. They lived through periods of famine, war, plague, and natural disaster. They suffered starvation, violence, barrenness, captivity, exile, colonization, and genocide. They were, in countless ways, the wretched of the earth. Brave, lonely voices, crying in the desert.
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Make it Stop
Crisis management began for me in my final year of school. At the end of couple of days of studying (one had not the skills in those days) and a fortnight of Bursary exams, I remember escaping to the top field and lying back luxuriously on the grass, gazing luxuriously up into the blue sky. Such delight, such flight, after such suffocating masochism all fortnight in the exam hall …. [More to come. Click on title.]
Jesus is Truth & Jesus knows Truth
Phew! We are privy to a most amazing conversation! What a message Jesus is bringing!
But, it is a message which is incomprehensible to Pilate. [more to come – click on title]
Freedom is Conditional
What about these recent anti-vax, anti-mandate, placard waving, irresponsible gatherings of malcontents and illegal road blockages, decrying our loss of freedoms? …. [more follows: click on title]
