...sheepfold is also the Thief who disrupts the complacent. Christ comes to comfort the disturbed, but also to disturb the comfortable. As individuals and communities, what is the role in...
A Sermon preached by the Precentor, Canon Anna Macham Sunday 11 August 2024- 10:30am Jeremiah 2:1-7, 10-15 and John 20:11-18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Ov0lKSYkc&list=PLo5fqqdNk4Z9FSkbx5w6itQt_7rGS3FEU&index=1 Sixteen years ago, a startling musical discovery...
...through Latin from the Greek word ekklēsia. Ek-klēsia is a compound word that means ‘called-from’. In its pre-Christian context, an ekklēsia was a secular political gathering, a communal moot to...
...serious point about how communication can fail because of human inattentiveness, impatience or anxiety. The game illustrates how, within oral cultures, stories tend to resolve into familiar forms or come...
...horrible future is predicted for the king’s family and his people; and then, all of a sudden, and speaking from decades later, comes the familiar phrase: ‘Comfort, O comfort my...
...During a rite’s liminal stage, participants “stand at the threshold” between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, which completing the rite establishes. In more recent times,...
...healing the sick, and driving out demons, he is speaking to the world’s condition. Now: pilgrims come to Salisbury Cathedral, just as they come to Qasr al-Yahud, and they come...
...complaints on him, translated here as “because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming,” a more...
...God moving in the midst of our manifold diversities like a little child. [1] A rare recording of RS Thomas reciting his own verse can be found online here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDmWxZyXjSc...