While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

  • 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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  • 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,…

  • ‘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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Images of the City and the Shaping of Humanity 

    First published in 1989 in Theology in the City, ed. A.E. Harvey. , 32–46. You can read a 2024 introduction to this here. Faith in the City is a significant recent episode within the history of the Churches’ concerns about the ways in which people live in modern urban society and what cities make of human…

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