While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer
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…
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.…
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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