Book: Romans

The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.

What God has promised, God will make good on, no matter what the apparent obstacles, and our job is simply to set about cooperating with the promise-maker rather than with the obstacles.

God is always acting, but often in surprising and paradoxical ways. The ways of God often reverse human expectations.

There is no such thing as a ritual-free space, and performed well or performed badly, rituals change things, change people’s lives.

Darkness cannot conceal anything from God, but God who confronts us with truth and justice, and invites us to choose life and promises to help and bless us in that choice.

Those who insist that faith must satisfy their every ideology may miss out, while those who simply yoke themselves to Jesus will find the freedom and peace for which they yearn.

If Abraham is our common father in faith, and like him we are justified and made whole by our faith in God’s mercy, then Christians, Jews and Muslims might find unity in sharing, humbly, in the wonder of that gift together.

Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.

You can’t define or dictate how people will experience God, even within the service of worship.

Christian progressives must not despise those who feel insecure about change, and Christian conservatives must not despise those who take new ways.

Christians are to be known for what they do rather than what they abstain from.

Embodied in all creation, God labours to bring to birth a new creation and the children of God.