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Reading the Bible, Searching for Faith
This was written in response to a recent article published in the New Statesman, in which Lamorna Ash reflects on reading the Bible and searching for faith. 1. My confession of faith The search for faith, in a Christian way, has been a central thread of my life. Reading the Bible, by myself and in…
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God so loved the world
Presidential Address to the Yorkshire Baptist Association, 1985 Allow me first one personal remark. What I have to say may sound like a lecture; I ask you to hear it as a testimony. It describes something of what it has been given to me to discover, to imagine, to think and to seek for, in…
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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.…
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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.…
While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer