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Tag: church
What if the Good Samaritan hadn’t been able to help?
Like most people, I want to identify with the Good Samaritan and help those in difficult circumstances. However, I fear I am more like the religious elites and often ignore the desperate.
Even when I do try to help, it’s not always easy.
Finding the fear (Jesus is not my boyfriend)
I am supremely grateful that I grew up in a church that introduced me to Jesus as a friend. From … More
Divine Human
God in human form is not unique to Christianity. Other religions celebrate gods who take on mortality. Yet, in these stories, the gods become human to maximise their physicality.
Remembering a woman who changed my life
I run the charity Women Without Roofs, which Eileen Lodge initiated. Nepal Leprosy Fellowship recently celebrated their 25th Anniversary and … More
Unchanging Creator
God’s always doing something new; it’s his habit. He made seven hundred and six thousand eyeballs today, each of them unique, and those are just the human ones.
This attribute of God floors me.
Women who wish to be taken seriously
I came across this stunning prayer today in Celtic Daily Prayer, the introduction suggests that it can be prayed by … More
Dear Reader, you matter to God
To all the readers of this blog. I pray for you and as I thought about you today I sensed … More
Witnessing male chauvinism in church. What should I do about it?
Yesterday at a church meeting, the pastor invited two members of the church to the stage to share a lengthy … More
A letter home from Alabama
Alabama 8th October 2018 Dear Jenna, Thanks for your card, it’s taken me a while to write back because my … More
Tolstoy and how the unbeliever feels
If you have read this blog before, you will know that I am reading Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina because the insights … More
Praying with Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, Ignatian Prayer and Reviewing the Day
This quote is from “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. As explained in an earlier post, I am reading Tolstoy because … More
The Antidote to Doubt
These beautiful words come from ‘God on the Inside‘ by Nigel G. Wright on page 105. Rather than denying that … More
Meditation on a candle (and waxbows)
I began thinking about Jesus as light of the world, but then realised we too are called to be lamps … More
It’s a dichotomy
I have noted before on this blog the dichotomy that exists in America between high patriotism and low solidarity (Patriotism … More
Dislocated Christians 