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Continue reading →: Giving is only the beginningHelder Camara once observed, “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
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Continue reading →: How do good people do bad things and still live with themselves?I am finding Albert Bandura has a very useful model for identifying the mechanisms of moral disengagement. Indeed, when I consider the current crisis of refugee children being removed from their parents, I can say I’ve seen plenty of examples of all four major mechanisms and their subtypes coming into…
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Continue reading →: Sacralising SpaceThe sacralisation of space is an important aspect of ritual within Nature religions. In the New Testament though, we are told that we who are in Christ are the temple of the Holy Spirit; that we are the temple with Jesus as the foundation stone. In other words, we ARE…
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Continue reading →: Winter solstice with East Midlands Forest ChurchEast Midlands Forest Church have graciously allowed me to share these reflections from a Winter Solstice Ceremony they ran some years ago. I am choosing to publish it now in June, as while they are now approaching midsummer in the UK, we are approach midwinter here in Australia so it’s…
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Continue reading →: A Prayer of Thanks for the Four ElementsA Prayer of Thanks for the Four Elements (written by Talitha Arnold, with ideas from the Children of United Church of Santa Fe.) A Prayer for Air: We thank you, God, for the gift of air – For cool breezes and brisk winds that refresh us, For blue skies and…
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Continue reading →: Are we an answer to the prayer of Jesus?On the night of his arrest, Jesus prayed, “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is…
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Continue reading →: Playing the Victim GameA big problem I see with identity politics is that it encourages communities to indulge in rival victim narratives. Everyone wants to present themselves as the victim, as the underdog, irrespective of their comparative experience. Indeed it’s probably true to say everyone has experienced victimisation in some ways, even victimisers,…
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Continue reading →: Praying against the spirit of hateJoin me in praying against the spirit of hate and for an expansion of our enemies imagination … and our own. Like and pass on if you’re in.
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Continue reading →: Valley of the Shadow of DeathValley of the Shadow of Death is a photograph by Roger Fenton, taken on April 23, 1855, during the Crimean War. It is one of the most well-known images of war. Fenton observed, “in coming to a ravine called the valley of death, the sight passed all imagination: round shot…
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Continue reading →: Blessings for the harvest seasonGod of Seed and Harvest We bless you, God of Seed and Harvest And we bless each other That the beauty of this world And the love that created it Might be expressed through our lives And be a blessing to others Now and always – Author Unknown
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