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Wheat and Weeds
The parable of the wheat and the weeds is one of the many counter intuitive moments in Scripture that remind us God’s grace breaks into...

Reverend Sue
Jul 19, 20235 min read


Teaching in Parables
Jesus uses parables to reveal, to encourage, to challenge those open to the kingdom, and to confound those not in the right frame of mind...

Reverend Sue
Jul 12, 20234 min read


Sacrifice and Surrender
The story of Abraham and Isaac, sometimes called the Akedah or the binding of Isaac, is pivotal to the Jewish and Christian faiths. And...

Reverend Sue
Jun 28, 20235 min read


Who Belongs?
We have some very difficult and disturbing texts to grapple with this week leading us to reflect on who is family, tribe, group and who...

Reverend Sue
Jun 21, 20236 min read


God is to be found in Hospitality
God can be found in the providing of hospitality to strangers and in those times when we are open to the hospitality of others. (Third...

Reverend Sue
Jun 14, 20235 min read


St Paul reflects on Faith
This week (Second Sunday after Pentecost, or Proper 5 [10]) we begin a season of reading St Paul and his letter to the Romans. It is...

Reverend Sue
Jun 7, 20237 min read


Trinity - The Heart of God is Community
The Trinity is something we can get ourselves in a knot over. I have certainly wrestled with the idea and construction of the Trinity....

Reverend Sue
May 31, 20234 min read


All Saints
All Saints is that gift of a festival in which we can remember the saints of our tradition and give thanks for their continuing witness...

Reverend Sue
Nov 1, 20224 min read


Seeking the One who is Seeking Us
The story of Zacchaeus shimmying up a tree to better see Jesus and then having Jesus invite himself to a long lunch (Luke 19:1-10. Twenty...

Reverend Sue
Oct 26, 20225 min read


Stripping Away the Layers of Resistance
One way of understanding the Christian spiritual growth journey is the unending stripping away of the layers of resistance, ego...

Reverend Sue
Oct 19, 20225 min read


Persistence as Spiritual Practice
Most of us have been taught that the parable about the unjust judge and the persevering widow (Luke 18:1-14, Nineteenth Sunday after...

Reverend Sue
Oct 12, 20224 min read


The Ten Lepers
This story of the healing of the ten lepers and the one who says thank you to Jesus is so well known that we can miss the genius of the...

Reverend Sue
Oct 5, 20225 min read
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