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Haddon Willmer

  • The Whole World in His Hands

    When I was young, and the Bible was read in church beyond the bounds of sanitized lectionary, I heard that ‘the whole world lies in the hands of the evil one’ (I John 5.19). Coming from under the Blitz, through the war, the holocaust, Hiroshima, into cold war, this text had plausibility. We took it at least half…

  • Territorial Rights on a Greek beach, 1988

    Territorial Rights on a Greek beach, 1988

    Into this little bay/ Where a city sunk six centuries ago/ We turned half an hour since/ In a little boat like yours

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  • Tsunami theology

    Matthew 18.10: Do not despise one of these little ones for their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven God together swept out by the waveNo habitation left to stand upon the earthSea swallows without commentsmoothes memory all awayThe children fathers mothers are not Once little ones quite nothing nowwaved away, Tsunami…

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  • When the magic stops, we might be getting near

    It was magic when the star appeared, Bright shining reshaped the customed sky. It was magic to research, poring over books, Speculations escalating in our talk,  Sparking vision beyond vision. It was magic when the fog cleared  And the new king’s birth appeared  As the vision’s meaning set us on our way to find him. It…

  • No Kingdom No Baby

    A remark on contemporary Christmas in England  Today we have baby But no kingdom  The baby is beautiful What baby is not? But the baby signs  Nothing now The baby signs  No gift, no hope, No kingdom Signs nothing Because for us  Self-referencing consumers There is no screen  Picking up and reflecting back The light…

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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…

  • 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, …

  • 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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