Amongst the birthday greetings I received in May of this year was this one: “A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.” It’s amazing when you think of it: that each day we’re all on a journey around the sun…
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“It was the white queen in Alice in Wonderland who boasted that she had sometimes managed to believe ‘as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ For some folk it feels that this is what Christianity is asking us to do…”
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The dirty little secret in our churches is that very few, if any, study the sacred writings of our tradition. Sermons by the way are not really ways to learn or study the sacred scriptures…
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“I was snorkling along the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef. And I mean the edge. To one side, the coral, the colourful fish, the safety of shallow water. To the other side, the abyss….”
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The violence of the terrorists on September 11th 2001, fed by religious extremism cycled round to even more violence fed by a thirst for revenge. And when will it stop? It seems to be the way of the world, and even more troubling, for those who value the goodness that religion can offer, violence seems to often to be condoned in our sacred texts…
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