Book: John

The message that salvation is exclusively in the hands of the risen Christ may be unfashionable, but it is the only message of salvation we have to offer.

As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.

God invites us to be immersed in another possible reality, to look at the world with the dark and contrary light that comes from the cross of Jesus.

Christ crucified is both a sign of the ultimate consequence of evil, and of the ultimate victory of Christ over evil through the power of suffering love.

The world is full of offers of poisoned cups to quench our thirst, but Jesus offers us his own Spirit to sustain us in the wilderness.

The wound of abandonment which haunts every human being will find its healing in Christ who is everywhere present as the authority and power of God.

We go out not to take Christ to others, but to meet Christ among them and reconnect his story and theirs.

We are called not to know, but to be known, not to see, but to be seen by God, who gazes upon us with a love so wide and long and deep that it surpasses all our imaginings.

The impossible life of peace, joy, justice centred in the other, only becomes possible because God makes it possible.

The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.

A modern paraphrase of a Homily from St Gregory Nazianzus for the Feast of the Nativity

When we call Jesus King, we may not know what we’re saying.