A DOSE OF HOPE
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;...
7.12.2024
9:45
30.11.2024
18:02
‘The colour purple’
Most colours are easy to make but purple…? It took centuries to discover. That is why...
24.11.2024
16:53
The messiah, The king
Imagine the shock of Saul at Damascus when he realised ‘this Jesus’, whose followers he was...
16.11.2024
13:59
‘THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED …
… and the moon will lose its brightness.’ These are hard-to-handle words of Jesus in Mark...
9.11.2024
15:02
THE KING OF SPAIN
One image that stays with me all this week is not the American election but the...
2.11.2024
15:31
A GRINDING STONE AND A WINE PRESS
In the beginning of the Christian story there were the ‘Jesus followers’, who, when they spread...
26.10.2024
19:25
His eyes were opened
Mark writes in a fresh engaging style that draws us into the scene. Take the Bartimaeus...
19.10.2024
19:48
He offered his life for others
Our short text from Isaiah today is repeated - and fulfilled – in the last words...
13.10.2024
7:01
SELL EVERYTHING
‘Go and sell everything you own and give the money to the poor … then come...
5.10.2024
16:13
MARRIAGE
Marriage is the subject of our readings this Sunday and one, who has not married, might...
29.9.2024
21:06
His majesty’s loyal opposition
Sometime in the 1820s this phrase was first used to describe the party out of power...
22.9.2024
19:39
Chipping away to reveal your beauty
This is the second week running that we read Mark’s warning that the ‘Son of Man...
14.9.2024
21:03
Fly or die
It is a well-known image: a caterpillar must die so that a butterfly can fly. A...
