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This text, like all the texts we have considered in the last few weeks, is really quite shocking in number of ways: Jesus is explaining...

Jesus loves the young man who is being asked to give up everything in order to follow and the young man is very sad when he feels unable...

St Francis lived 800 years ago and yet his life and teachings seem very contemporary in many ways. Like all saints his life is surrounded...

Jesus, as remembered by Mark’s gospel, seems to delight in scandalising us by who is included and valued by God. (Nineteenth Sunday after...

Jesus seems to delight in turning everything upside down! Do you want to become important? Then become as vulnerable and unimportant as...

This week we learn, with and through Peter and the disciples, the true identity of Jesus the Holy One of God, or Messiah. And this...

It seems that living into the larger more inclusive heart and mind of God’s vision is not easy and that, dare we say it, even Jesus...

This week we hear Jesus challenging and seeking to break open the "too small ” mindset of the religious who focus on the appearance or...

Choose this day whom you will serve, who and what you will listen to, and what path you will set out on. After weeks of exploring the...

“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Lay aside immaturity and live and walk in the way of insight [wisdom].”...

Food is so often at the heart of what we do together, not only a necessity of physical life but part of what binds us together socially....

I have come to love many of the Hebrew Bible stories of the Israelites, the chosen of God, because they are such sharp observations of...