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  • On Being and Doing

    On Being and Doing

    Are you a Mary or a Martha? We like our binaries don’t we? Heaven or hell? Good or bad? Saint or sinner? Doers or thinkers? In analysis parlance,…

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  • On asking hard questions (or ‘be a bit more Nicodemus’)

    On asking hard questions (or ‘be a bit more Nicodemus’)

    Who was Nicodemus? Before I get into that can I recommend you check out the recent American production, The Chosen, a magnificent multi-series about the life of Jesus.…

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  • On Remembering

    On Remembering

    For millions of Christians around the world, the central act of their worshipping life is the Eucharist. They remember, and they obey Jesus’ command at the Last Supper…

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  • On Forgiveness

    On Forgiveness

    What could you forgive? What could you not forgive? A child breaking a window accidentally, or an adult breaking one, deliberately? Could you forgive someone who stole from…

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  • On Power

    On Power

    In one of the children’s Bibles it says, as motivation for torturing and killing Jesus, ‘Some people did not like Jesus talking about God’. Sometimes the children’s way…

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  • On Genesis and the Suffering of God

    On Genesis and the Suffering of God

    Genesis is the first book of the Bible – a book about origins. I do not take it literally, or believe it was ever intended to be taken…

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