While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

  • Love and Things

    NIRV gives us ‘always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres’, as its translation of I Corinthians 13.7:  πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει. When this wonderful chapter was read in church recently, that ‘always’ woke me up, jarring with my memory which is based on the KJV and RSV. I missed the…

  • Politics and forgiveness

    POLITICS AND FORGIVENESS is an unlikely combination. One senior Baptist world leader said to me, “There isn’t much forgiveness in politics”. That gives us no excuse for rejecting it as our task and responsibility as Christian human beings. After all, the combination of God and Humanity is unlikely, and seems implausible in the world as…

  • Congregational nativity drawn from Luke’s Gospel

    This play is intended for the whole congregation. All ages find a place in it.  It was written for what was then a sizeable congregation of adults and children of all ages, and aimed to make as many as possible out of being consumers of Christian fare, into being partners in telling the Good News.…

  • A talk about climate change, while there is yet time

    A talk about climate change, while there is yet time

    If you dislike this sermon, blame it on this, that I have recently been reading Jeremiah and the Guardian. So I think I ought to talk about climate change, though it is difficult to do. May I do so?  The IPCC recently (2018!) warned that a rise in global temperature of 1.5° above pre-industrial levels…

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  • With my missing hands

    Note:  This essay is a revision of a chapter originally published in 2008 in Remembering to Forgive: A Tribute to Una O’Higgins O’Malley ed Enda McDonagh, pp141-148.  Una O’Higgins O’Malley was a remarkable Irish woman, who worked for peace and reconciliation in Ireland. She founded the Glencree Reconciliation Centre, where I met her in 1978…

  • Matthew’s Telling: all-age congregational Christmas play

    Matthew’s Telling: all-age congregational Christmas play

    A dramatised contemporary reading of the whole text of Matthew 1 and 2, for an inclusive cast of children, young people and adults, living the story together, respecting the integrity of this text: don’t cannibalise it and make the conventional Nativity stew of bits taken from various sources. A change from the usual mishmash Nativity.…

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  • Why this website?

    As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.  (John 9.4) I am 85 now and I can still work – if you can call what I do, ‘work’.  I have enough wit and finger-agility to keep scribbling, and enough…

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