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The passage photographed comes from a family Bible written over a century ago. The author makes some bold claims. Have they stood the test of time? As you read with the benefit of hindsight do any alarm bells start ringing in your mind? What achievements can we be proud of as members of the Church, […]
Electric or Fossil fuel vehicle? If you value restoring a right relationship with the rest of creation then environmental impact is a big concern. How can you make the best choice? Everything has an impact, but the impact of oil use, and fossil fuels in general, has been off the scale. This is a global […]
Where do you find value and joy in life? Christians sometimes talk of being “born again” or “Metanoia” moments. The examples used of this are often ones where a persons life is caught up in extreme behaviour. It was, however, when someone so concerned about preserving his good reputation that he chose to visit Jesus […]
HERHOMEUPONTHE ROCK “everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. […]
Contemplation through cameras. “World Thinking Day” is an international event started by the girl guides and recognised by the scouts too. You can read more about it here Quartz has worked with Stephen Ross before to capture the light reflected from mirrors in one of our Christmas installations. The pictures in this post comes from […]
This picture is a throw away thing. But if you look at the number of people who have seen it that’s about 2200 folk thinking of Jesus, God in human form, with a smile on their faces. What would St Ignatius think? Perhaps their thoughts won’t have been the deepest of contemplations, but how often […]
Ink is kinda magical. “It’s a bridge between the world of flesh and blood and the world of thoughts and dreams”. Can you imagine how the first people to see books and realise how they work felt? Have you ever wondered about the social and spiritual effects of introducing the technology of the printing press? […]
Is holiness the preserve of white gowned angels singing a perfected concert of praise? Or is that an artists impression intended to inspire you to seek out a very ordinary existence, but where things taste right and people are gentle with each other. Or when you see people in gritty everyday work but living together […]
A story of St Francis Have you seen this film? I was introduced to it recently and thought it was beautiful in so many ways. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0069824/ It is an artists impression of a life rather than a historians, but for more information about his life you could start here: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-francis-of-assisi/
This story might be familiar to you, but what happens if you read it imaginatively ? Do you imagine yourself as the seed, the sower, or elsewhere in the farming environment? The story can be found in the collection of books here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+13&version=NIVUK What was the storyteller thinking of when the story was told, or […]