Sermon: Ordinary 4, Year B Mark 1:21-28
Text: Mark 1:21-28 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Jesus is God. Mary is his Mother. Go to Mass. Thank you and goodbye. Amen
I want to talk at Greenbelt….
I have just made the following submission to Greenbelt to speak at the Festival. I am delighted that this year the style will be in the form of 20-min TED talks. If you've never seen a TED Conferance talk, then you need to: short (<20 min), scriptless, powerful features which serve to inspire and challenge.…
Interesting reflection
The Parish Communion Movement arose from the work of the then ascendant Catholic wing of the Church of England; now with the ascendency of the evangelical wing in the Church, holy communion in church is (slowly) diminishing from use in the wider Church. Look around you and you see this happening. If it succeeds then…
Fotoshop by Adobé
https://www.vimeo.com/34813864 One of the things that I find most distressing with working with teenagers, and especially teenage girls, and even having teenage daughters is the awareness of their submission to the whole body-image hegemony: that the unreality of magazines and tv body image just messes with their minds and their self-esteem. This spoof advert captures the…
Left Unanswered…
https://www.vimeo.com/20785219 Beautiful photography. Challenging soundtrack. Interesting questions. Makes me want to use this in a discipleship icebreaker. Pity you can't easily download it, but then again there's always Save2PC
Hands-only CPR from Vinnie Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILxjxfB4zNk My clinical speciality was ITU and Coronary Care, but it was now so long ago that the daily-honed skills I had on someone's chest are now as rusty as the next person's, but I welcome this move to make CPR far more widely known. I am also pleased that they have insisted on the…
God [through the Lectionary speaks to me…
He does this sometimes. It is galvanising and always challenging, but sometimes the appointed Scriptures of the Office or the Mass just leap out and cry to me "What are you doing?". Today's first reading at Mass speaks openly to my sin, to your sin and to our collective sin. Lord have mercy... 1 John…
Scriptural Basis of the Anglican Covenant
The forced-through proposed Anglican Covenant should be based upon Scripture. No question about that. Maybe then it should be based upon these: Matthew 7:1 suggests no-one can presume to sit in judgement on anyone else Hebrews 8:13 and Romans 7:6 require that there should be no dependence whatsoever on Old Testament Law Matthew 22:37-39 requires that…