Echoing Silence: God’s One Word
What intimate companionship with God while driving home yesterday. Four hours of solitude and silence. This ‘Creedal Meditation’ poem is an echo of that silence. Echoing Silence: God’s One Word From Eternity to EternityInfinite SilenceImpenetrable...Repentant Reflections on Jean Vanier
For those who know (of) Jean Vanier, the recent disclosures by six women of his alleged sexual relationship with them, is profoundly distressing, to say the least. For those who don’t know of him, it might not be a big issue. It is, however, a HUGE issue. Especially...Is God on our side? Does God take sides?
Meditation on Joshua 5:13-15 (New International Version) Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”“Neither,” he replied,...Reflection on Significant Personal Shifts 2019/2020
In January I decided to start a long slow journey to meditatively read the Bible cover to cover. This morning, 30 December 2019, I finished Deuteronomy. The end of Torah/Pentateuch, the five Books of Moses. It’s been rich! I enter 2020 reading the next book in the...TRUTH OR LIES – WHAT’S THE COST?
I watched the Chernobyl series of 5 episodes and was deeply struck by the words of the courageous Russian nuclear scientist Valery Legasov, “As scientists we are naive. We are so focused on our search for truth we fail to consider how few actually want us...Father’s Day Message
Think about your father – dead or alive – or imagine him if you never knew him. What feeling does it evoke in you? What word(s) comes to mind? Last Sunday, 9 June, was Pentecost in the Christian calendar: to celebrate the coming of God’s Spirit. Fifty days earlier was...Who to vote for in the South African (SA) Elections?
Folk have asked for my view on who and how to vote in the SA national and provincial elections on 8 May. For what it’s worth, here are my thoughts. I write in my personal capacity. As a nation, in terms of our political-economic situation, we’re in a mess, the lowest...Living The Life God Intended – Intro 1
Living The Life God Intended is a new series that expounds Jesus’ teachings in ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ – on how to live the kind of life that God intended – made possible in his Kingdom!
Racist Polarisation in SA – Four Types of Racists
Recent racist outbursts from Penny Sparrow and Velaphi Khumalo unmask suppressed racist attitudes for all to see – a mirror of what many secretly think in white and black communities? How do we respond?
Christmas: A Revolution of Mercy and Tenderness
The essence of Christmas is GOD’s coming into the world – the greatest gift known to humanity – the hope of planet earth! God who is so great, the Creator of our ever-expanding universe, became so small, to be one of us, so that we who are so small can know him, and...A Christian Response to Jihadist Violence & Donald Trump
Following the Paris and Beirut massacres and the social media discourse that ensued, as a reasonably regular twit I tweeted the following on 21 November: “In all the jihadist killings and hatred, WE MUST SEE JESUS – a King who does not kill anyone, but...Extraordinary Jubilee Of Mercy declared by Pope Francis
Pope Francis has declared an Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, beginning Tuesday 8 December 2015. Will you join in and make your life, your church, into a Jubilee of Mercy ?
Gospel Mandate of Reconciliation & Transformation (continued)
The Gospel Mandate of Reconciliation has implications regarding addressing racism, classism and sexism, that Alexander addresses in this teaching.
Act 6 continued: The Gospel Mandate of Reconciliation
Act 6 continued is The Gospel Mandate of Reconciliation in which our identity is changed as “Beloved Child of God”, and all ‘lenses’ and ‘labels’ through which see people are changed – we see people as loved by God.
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