Advent always promises that something is coming, something new and unexpected. We don’t know when or where or how it might come. But it comes. And it comes to us as a call, an asking, an insistence that we respond. It asks our participation … [To read more, click on title]
Category Archives: Reflections
Why Zacchaeus?
… yet something compels Zacchaeus. Perhaps a yearning in him for more. Perhaps a tiredness of being shunned by his neighbours. Clearly he is ready for more, because when Jesus calls to him to offer hospitality, he is happy to do so … [To read more, click on title]
Prayer Humility
… I am not like the Pharisee. Reading his prayer though … I immediately phrased my own in my mind, “Thank you God that I am nothing like that pompous, self-serving Pharisee!” And no sooner had the thought been thought, I realised that I am in fact no better or different! [To read more, click on title]
Weep, then Work
We all know about storms … The storms we face are not only meteorological — they appear in our politics, economies, theologies, and in our everyday lives … [To read more, click on title]
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