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To speak of joy while keeping company with imprisoned John the Baptiser seems too great a stretch of the heart (and very un-Christmas like!) and yet this is where the season of Advent and faith leads us! (Advent Three. Isaiah 35:1-10; Matthew 11:2-11) For if joy is more than holiday happiness (nothing wrong with happiness but it is very fleeting!) then joy is also for those who are limping from exile to home, and those who are reflecting on their life in prison. Sentence: “An

At this moment in history, as many times before, we can identify with the yearning and hope for a world of justice and mercy. The words of Isaiah, the psalmist, and St Paul all stir that longing for a world that lives as creatures of the Living God. And we also quicken with recognition of the need for the prophet John the Baptists words that cut through whatever disguise and distraction we may have colluded with! Sentence: “This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke whe

Advent is a time of preparation for the coming of Emmanuel, God with us, in which we prepare our hearts to both receive the Christ and to birth God in our own time and situation. In Year A of the lectionary we explore the story of the coming of the Christ Child according to the gospel of Matthew.  In the busyness of our world, especially in the lead up to Christmas, it can be very hard to enter into the spacious uncertainty, the yearning and desperate need for a saviour, and

The challenge to awaken sounds both inviting and alarming – depending where we are in our lives and our part of the world. Many spiritual traditions have the theme of awakening as part of the path of faithfulness and the getting of wisdom. And so, in some ways, we can understand it to be part of the perennial path. However, given the focus on salvation in the Christian tradition some may be shocked to hear St Paul tell those who are already believers that they/we need to awak

At last – the Christmas story as we know it starts to come into focus. Mothers and holy infants are gathering. The love of God expressed...

To claim that we are made for Joy is quite a claim at any time but especially this year when lament and weeping may seem more natural...

The prophets remind us that God is always making a way toward us; making a way forward from out of the trouble we find ourselves in...

“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...

Greetings dear fellow companions on the way, Here we are at the culmination of the church year – the Reign of Christ – and the cusp of...

At long last readings that sound like Christmas!! With only one sleep to go we at last hear the Christmas story as we best know it...

To believe, or even to want to believe, the promises of this week’s Scriptures is a radical act of hope and defiant faithfulness in the...

The gospel of Mark begins with these stirring words: “The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.” (Advent Two. Isaiah  40:1-11; Mark...