Advent One - Awake but not Alarmed
“There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and...
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Preaching the Good News in Year C - The Gospel of Luke
For those of us who identify as progressive, inclusive, feminist, and with a social justice concern for those on the margins of society...
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Nov 194 min read
Reign of Christ - Longing and Listening for the dream of God
The language of kingship makes many of us uncomfortable. Christ the King, or Reign of Christ, is a relatively new celebration within the...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 125 min read
Destruction and Birth Pangs
Jesus and the disciples leave the Temple and one of the disciples effectively says: “My, what big stones these are!” To which Jesus...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 74 min read
A Widow's Mite of Faith
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....
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Reverend Sue
Oct 294 min read
Love of God is Love of Neighbor
The two great commandments teach us that love of God is inseparable from love of neighbour and self. There are no neat divisions between...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 223 min read
Are we also blind?
The story about Jesus healing blind Bartimaeus is both a compassionate and life changing healing story and a pointed corrective to...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 155 min read
Greatness and Power and Suffering
This week the world and the text seem to swirl around and through one another as we struggle to understand greatness and power and...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 84 min read
Attachment and Detachment
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....
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Reverend Sue
Oct 14 min read
Jesus joins us in our Brokenness
Jesus joins us in our brokenness, indeed embraces us although little and unimportant, even to the point of tasting death. (Twentieth...
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Sep 174 min read
Welcoming Littleness
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...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 105 min read
What sort of Messiah?
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...
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