Living and Dying with the Saints
Living the beatitudes is tough and dangerous, and we will need the inspiration and company of the saints, before us and beside us, if we are going to make it.
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Rupture
In times of rupture, we, like Isaiah, can pour out our words, images and even anguished songs as we try to gather up the pieces and make some sense.
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Wellspring from the Rock
There is life and nourishment hidden in the depths, and through Jesus the rock it is accessible to us.
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Affirmative Action and the Gospel
In order to recognise and cooperate with what God is doing, we often need to recognise and see past the assumptions that come with our own privilege.
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Radical Forgiveness in a World at War
God’s offer of unlimited forgiveness creates a new world in which we are free to stop judging one another and turning on one another and spiralling into violence and hatred.
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Owe only Love
When we approach everyone with meet with the conviction that the one thing we owe them is love, Christianity will again be experienced as good news.
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Burning Identity Questions
Our true identity is only found when we discover that it is not about us, but that we are only truly anyone in relation to the God who is everything, and who is not the opposite of anything.
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Who do YOU say I am?
We respond to Jesus in different ways at different times, because we are not fully integrated in ourselves, but God loves us in all our fragmented parts.
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Recognising Patterns of Change
Looking for emerging patterns can help us (and Jesus?) recognise the ways that God is opening new pathways of grace and inclusion.
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Out on the Water
Jesus never stops crossing the menacing water to come to where we are, saying: “Take courage. It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
