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Jesus and the disciples leave the Temple and one of the disciples effectively says: “My, what big stones these are!” To which Jesus...

Our readings this week, as so often, amplify the place of tension and paradox that so many of us find ourselves in. (Mark 12:38-44....

The two great commandments teach us that love of God is inseparable from love of neighbour and self. There are no neat divisions between...

The story about Jesus healing blind Bartimaeus is both a compassionate and life changing healing story and a pointed corrective to...

This week the world and the text seem to swirl around and through one another as we struggle to understand greatness and power and...

If we do not feel as though a two edged sword has penetrated us to the marrow then maybe we have not heard the gospel! (Mark 10:17-31....

Jesus joins us in our brokenness, indeed embraces us although little and unimportant, even to the point of tasting death. (Twentieth...

We continue with the hard teachings of Jesus as he prepares his disciples for his suffering and death and also for what it means to be...

It seems that Peter’s recognition of Jesus as Messiah, the holy one, the anointed one of God, leads to as many soul searching questions...

“Be opened”, said Jesus to the deaf man. (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 18 [23]. Mark 7:24-37; and James 2:1-17.) Be opened is...

Most of us, as people of faith, live in the challenging terrain between righteous laws, the call to have true hearts and the call to be...

“... and Jesus had compassion for them because they were like a sheep without a shepherd ...” (Mark 6:30-34, 53-56. Ninth Sunday after...