While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer
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Monday morning
Monday morning, I sit down to write this piece, only a few hours left before it is due. And very little idea – or perhaps too many ideas, probably most won’t do. A clue-question I will follow: What is my world this morning? ‘My world’ is the great created living world as it comes to…
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4G Jesus: Galilee, Gethsemane, Golgotha and Global
Transcript of a talk given at Moortown Baptist Church, 4th April 2023. You can listen to the talk here. Introduction I want this evening in this talk, to share the story of Jesus as I’ve come to know it, or at least part of it, and very imperfectly. You don’t have to agree with me.…
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Forgiveness as Permission to Live
Originally published in Wounds that Heal: Theology, Imagination and Health, ed Jonathan Baxter, SPCK, 2007, pp79-98. The Framework Words in the forgiveness family are used in many different ways. That needs sorting out. One reason why it does not get sorted out is that many assume they know instinctively what forgiveness is. So our talk…
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About my doodles
I am glad these pictures bring joy to some people. They give me fun, sometimes shocking joy. But they are essentially accidents, gifts appearing from the hidden Giver of all good things.When I try to be a painter in control, aiming to produce a work of art, to put on the board something I have…
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Earth Cries – event
All are welcome to a reflective reading and discussion of Ben Okri’s prophetic voicing of EARTH’S CRIES. Tuesday 12 September, 7.30-9.15, at Moortown Baptist Church Lament with him the climate crisis and hear his call for human beings to ‘accelerate our own transformation now’, so that we make a ‘future possible again for the species…
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Transforming society – or merely making it
a theological discussion with the Bible in one hand and a very particular newspaper in the other Society for the Study of Theology 1995 What is this paper about? I have been asked to write a paper about theology and the transformation of society or transformation in society. I can only make this a manageable…
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