While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

  • Zacchaeus responds to the spirit of Jesus

    Soon, Christmas will be upon us, and we will hear words from the Fourth Gospel: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.’ That is the language of John. But today our reading comes…

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  • Christmas mistaken?

    God is love, overflowing love to all the world … we celebrate the birth of Jesus within that larger perspective. And, we are told, God is in control, God is always with us. In our religion, the two blend together, and  their relation is not critically evaluated. The first I believe and want to follow.…

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  • George MacCleod – Only One Way Left

    In 1957, I was sent by the RAF to Habbaniya in Iraq for five months. The work was light and I was able to spend a lot of time in the chapel, and with padre Sylvester. In the vestry there, I found a run of the Scottish Journal of Theology, and read many articles. I…

  • God Sends Jesus

    God sends Jesus to invite us all to seek life in the way of God’s far-reaching love. Some refuse the invitation, object to its intrusion, harass Jesus in his service and outreach, crucify him and seal his tomb. Others stand and watch, impotently grieving, as God’s project in Jesus peters out. The cross of Jesus symbolises massive negation of…

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  • Jesus Wept

    How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange country (Psalm 137)? How can a cheerful, or at least a cheering blog, be written in this world as it is, as we make it, as we let it go on being, as it looks like becoming? Jesus drew crowds to festivals of teaching, healing and food.…

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  • A Pale Reflection of John 20.11-16 and 15.14-15

    Life is in asking Who am I? Death turns the question to Who was he? Memorials answer for  a moment Then silence Silence Where God is? Where God is silenced? Or where the Word calls what is not  to be beyond question  Friend?

  • Christian Theology and MAGA – a silence of a watchmen? (Ezek 33)

    Disciples squabbled about greatness- Jesus placed a child in the midst. Many Christians go along with MAGA; many other Christians shun politics. What then should we be doing if the child theology of Jesus means something for us?  A seminar given to the Child Theology Movement, Wednesday 30th April 2025. You can watch other events…

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  • Church

    Baptist Worship, July 2003 Worse  than a weary way, brought us  almost too worn to take any more at last  to The bread in the Lord’s Supper Surprise, gentle sure nourishment   How did we, ill-shod feet shuffling rough paths,  Death marching, come to such a grace station?    More  By perversity than perseverance Idle habit,  deference…

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