Published on 30 Dec 2010
“This morning’s gospel story involves a rather bizarre sequence of events. There is a great deal of rich theological symbolism packed into a very short space in the passage from The Gospel of Matthew. The key to grasping the meaning of all this is the character of Joseph….”
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Published on 30 Dec 2010
“The substitute teacher began her lesson on ‘borrowing’. On the blackboard she showed us how you could, when a number was 0, go to the next number, cross it out and move one over. I still remember my response: I thought she was making this up. I couldn’t believe it….”
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Published on 20 Dec 2010
“Christmas is not a season for restraint or stuffiness – it’s a time for embellishment and decoration and stories and a little holy chaos. However there is always the danger that the sacred message of God’s truth at the heart of the festival may get drowned out…”
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Published on 15 Dec 2010
A journalism student at a local school left a message for me last week: she was doing a radio story on the new atheist bus campaign…
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Published on 15 Dec 2010
“The wolf shall live with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them” (Is 11:6)
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