While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer
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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…
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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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- ‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day’: sermon for Remembrance Sunday
- Parents as Agents in countering Child Sexual Exploitation
- Reflections on ‘Stepping out of the Traffick’
- Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking
- Images of the City and the Shaping of Humanity
- On Finding Faith in the City
- Two articles about the ‘city’
- Don’t let the sun go down on your anger
- Questions to ask when reading Luke’s parables
- What is a person?
- Prayer and politics
- Looking for the heavenly Jerusalem – on earth
- Does Jesus call us to political discipleship?
- The silence of eternity, interpreted by love
- The Prayer of my Life
- Praying in our exiles
- Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?
- Love Your Enemies
- Twice-baptised Christians – a way forward for church reform and unity
- Why read Jonah?
- There Were Shepherds Staying In The Fields By Night
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- A good politician’s reverberating mistake
- A collage
- Monday morning
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- 4G Jesus: Galilee, Gethsemane, Golgotha and Global
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- Forgiveness as Permission to Live
- About my doodles
- Earth Cries – event
- Transforming society – or merely making it
- Earth cries! Are we the gods that must step up?
- The Politics of Forgiveness
- Sin drops us in it at the threshold of forgiveness
- Thomas goes with Jesus
- Thinking Humanity in Space and Time: two comments and a response
- Thinking Humanity in Space and Time
- An invitation to discuss Bonhoeffer’s letter of 21 July 1944
- ‘Team God’ – a word for Trinity Sunday
- A sermon for Trinity Sunday
- Forgiving Constitutes the Person
- Illegal Boat People
- Power and the history of the Gospel in the church
- Friendship and the history of the Gospel in the church
- Writing local church history
- Jesus Christ the Forgiven: Christology, Atonement and Forgiveness
- Saying the Lord’s Prayer from a different perspective
- Reading Mark 2 with Zelenskiy and the Ukrainians
- The Good Shepherd
- Jesus refuses Peter’s pastoral care
- Though I have a theological degree, but have not love, I am nothing
- Ambition and the Gospel
- ‘Vertical’ and ‘Horizontal’ in Paul’s Theology of Reconciliation in the Letter to the Romans
- Learning history through moments
- Reading the Bible, Searching for Faith
- Foundational vision of the Earth
- Entry Point seminar
- World’s History, Heaven’s Silence, Theology’s Place
- God so loved the world
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