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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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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Moses is one of the great figures in the Bible. A Hebrew raised in Pharaoh’s court, he’s got a double identity. When we meet him in today’s first reading he’s in hiding because, just a few days earlier he killed a man…
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“Today’s story of wrestling with an unknown stranger and being wounded has found particular resonance amongst homosexual people for somehow it captures a particular aspect of what’s it’s like to come out, to be open about our sexual identity. Maybe, as this society, grows in tolerance and respect for gay people this may not be the story of the next generation but for those of us of a certain age…”
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“If the question is this: “Of what use is religion in a violent world?” then today’s readings lead us in an interesting direction. Or if the question is, as Walter Wink puts it, “How can we oppose evil without creating new evils and being made evil ourselves?” then the parable of the wheat and the weeds offers a counter cultural suggestion…”
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