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Every chance he gets
Luke’s Gospel is … the most forgiving of all four Gospels. Every chance he gets, Luke has Jesus forgiving people, right up to the thief on the cross and the prayer for his persecutors. … Mercy and...
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An evil book? C. J. Sansom on the book of Revelation
evelation was the first C. J. Sansom book I have read, primarily because the plot is built largely around the seven bowls (or vials, as they are called in the King James Version) of judgement found in...
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Stories
Stories. Mostly, as it happens, women’s stories. One writes: ‘When I was forty-one I lost the ability to read. … I was trying to get myself and my two children free of a husband I had been with for...
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An alternative people, among whom inequality and violence disappear
Without an alternative people, among whom inequality and violence disappear, Jesus would not be able to be the Christ, the Messiah. The existence of this people is the convincing proof that Christian...
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Members of any race, nation, gender or social condition
Commenting on Isaiah 56:3-8, which talks about the inclusion of foreigners and eunuchs among God’s people, foreigners and eunuchs, that is, who keep the Sabbath and the covenant, Walter Brueggemann...
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Homeless Jesus
I came across this amazing sculpture entitled Homeless Jesus in the April issue of Third Way. Apparently, it has been installed with a plague featuring words from Matthew 25:40: Truly, I say to you, as...
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To see through every regime
To be a follower of Jesus … means … to see through every regime that promises peace through violence, peace through domination, peace through genocide, peace through exclusion and intimidation....
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A profoundly disruptive prophetic ‘presence-in-the-world’
In a world where the Church no longer dominates Western culture and where ‘strong’ dogmatic statements are no longer heeded, the Christian is left to bear witness by faithfully following the way of...
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The great falsity of colonisation, the art of letting go – and some other...
John O’Donohue is one of the most evocative writers I know. His books, his thoughts, his phraseology are like beautiful cathedrals to me, beautiful cathedrals made of words. Here are some passages from...
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Homelessness as ethical and aesthetic normativity
Being at home means belonging, but it also means constructing borders and excluding the other. Any kind of group identification constructs the social category of the other. Homes are primarily sites...
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