While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer
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Tenting with Jesus
Name Jesus, Emmanuel, which means ‘God is with us’ (Matt.1.23). But how is God with us? A clue: God became flesh and pitched his tent among us (John 1.14). Tents remind us of holiday fun and festival togetherness, but it was not all sunshine for Jesus. He had ‘nowhere to lay his head’ (Luke 9.58). He tents ‘among us’ but…
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Shepherds of Israel
A Christmas meditation on Ezekiel 34 There are no shepherds For God’s people any more There are shepherds abiding in the fields Looking after their sheep by night But where are the shepherds of Israel? There are wheelers and dealers in a palace In Jerusalem, An upstart dynasty, dysfunctional family Tearing and devouring the people, …
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There are many theologians in the world
For some, there is no God. For some, God is a vague shadow around the edges of life For some, God is tremendous presence, filling life, silencing speech For some, God is found in the Bible and in the church For some, God is named the Rock, the God of Israel, For some, God is the Father…
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The walk to school (three poems)
One little old lady Little old lady Topping eighty Rucksacked Runs the roads Faster than I can (that not to say much) Towing a little old dog, Scrawned in her image She was a regularity On our walk to school Then she was missing, One month, two This morning, Sunbright, We saw again, Summer shorts,…
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‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day’: sermon for Remembrance Sunday
Sermon preached at Moortown Baptist Church on 10th November 2024, Remembrance Sunday. The texts for the sermon are: 14 At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem. 15 David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” 16 So…
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Parents as Agents in countering Child Sexual Exploitation
Pages 344-362 of Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, Edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill Prevette. Regnum, 2024. Introducing Pace Pace (now called Ivison Trust) is a voluntary charity in the UK which supports parents whose children are sexually exploited or…
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Reflections on ‘Stepping out of the Traffick’
Reflections on Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill Prevette, Regnum, 2024. Published on pp27-30. The varied chapters in this book share two key characteristics. First, they want sexual exploitation to end, the exploiters to be deterred and…
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Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking
Edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill PrevetteRegnum, 2024. I am so glad to see this book come out, after ten years’ teamwork.It is very sad, and a great challenge, that a book of this sort is necessary. The contents give some idea of what it offers: I am grateful to have had…
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- Tenting with Jesus
- Shepherds of Israel
- There are many theologians in the world
- The walk to school (three poems)
- ‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day’: sermon for Remembrance Sunday
- Parents as Agents in countering Child Sexual Exploitation
- Reflections on ‘Stepping out of the Traffick’
- Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking
- Images of the City and the Shaping of Humanity
- On Finding Faith in the City
- Two articles about the ‘city’
- Don’t let the sun go down on your anger
- Questions to ask when reading Luke’s parables
- What is a person?
- Prayer and politics
- Looking for the heavenly Jerusalem – on earth
- Does Jesus call us to political discipleship?
- The silence of eternity, interpreted by love
- The Prayer of my Life
- Praying in our exiles
- Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?
- Love Your Enemies
- Twice-baptised Christians – a way forward for church reform and unity
- Why read Jonah?
- There Were Shepherds Staying In The Fields By Night
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- A good politician’s reverberating mistake
- A collage
- Monday morning
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- 4G Jesus: Galilee, Gethsemane, Golgotha and Global
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- Forgiveness as Permission to Live
- About my doodles
- Earth Cries – event
- Transforming society – or merely making it
- Earth cries! Are we the gods that must step up?
- The Politics of Forgiveness
- Sin drops us in it at the threshold of forgiveness
- Thomas goes with Jesus
- Thinking Humanity in Space and Time: two comments and a response
- Thinking Humanity in Space and Time
- An invitation to discuss Bonhoeffer’s letter of 21 July 1944
- ‘Team God’ – a word for Trinity Sunday
- A sermon for Trinity Sunday
- Forgiving Constitutes the Person
- Illegal Boat People
- Power and the history of the Gospel in the church
- Friendship and the history of the Gospel in the church
- Writing local church history
- Jesus Christ the Forgiven: Christology, Atonement and Forgiveness
- Saying the Lord’s Prayer from a different perspective
- Reading Mark 2 with Zelenskiy and the Ukrainians
- The Good Shepherd
- Jesus refuses Peter’s pastoral care
- Though I have a theological degree, but have not love, I am nothing
- Ambition and the Gospel
- ‘Vertical’ and ‘Horizontal’ in Paul’s Theology of Reconciliation in the Letter to the Romans
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