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Christian Theology and MAGA – a silence of a watchmen? (Ezek 33)
Disciples squabbled about greatness- Jesus placed a child in the midst. Many Christians go along with MAGA; many other Christians shun politics. What then should we be doing if the child theology of Jesus means something for us? A seminar given to the Child Theology Movement, Wednesday 30th April 2025. You can watch other events…
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Church
Baptist Worship, July 2003 Worse than a weary way, brought us almost too worn to take any more at last to The bread in the Lord’s Supper Surprise, gentle sure nourishment How did we, ill-shod feet shuffling rough paths, Death marching, come to such a grace station? More By perversity than perseverance Idle habit, deference…
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Foreword to ‘Climbing the Spiritual Mountain: The Questions of Jesus’ by Alan and Elizabeth Davey
This book was published in 2014. You can read more and buy the book here. I like this book because … It fits human beings who are creatures beset by questions shaking and making the foundations, such as: ‘What is the meaning of life, if there is one?’ ‘What is a human person, if not…
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The Whole World in His Hands
When I was young, and the Bible was read in church beyond the bounds of sanitized lectionary, I heard that ‘the whole world lies in the hands of the evil one’ (I John 5.19). Coming from under the Blitz, through the war, the holocaust, Hiroshima, into cold war, this text had plausibility. We took it at least half…
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Territorial Rights on a Greek beach, 1988
Into this little bay/ Where a city sunk six centuries ago/ We turned half an hour since/ In a little boat like yours
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Tsunami theology
Matthew 18.10: Do not despise one of these little ones for their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven God together swept out by the waveNo habitation left to stand upon the earthSea swallows without commentsmoothes memory all awayThe children fathers mothers are not Once little ones quite nothing nowwaved away, Tsunami…
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No Kingdom No Baby
A remark on contemporary Christmas in England Today we have baby But no kingdom The baby is beautiful What baby is not? But the baby signs Nothing now The baby signs No gift, no hope, No kingdom Signs nothing Because for us Self-referencing consumers There is no screen Picking up and reflecting back The light…
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Tenting with Jesus
Name Jesus, Emmanuel, which means ‘God is with us’ (Matt.1.23). But how is God with us? A clue: God became flesh and pitched his tent among us (John 1.14). Tents remind us of holiday fun and festival togetherness, but it was not all sunshine for Jesus. He had ‘nowhere to lay his head’ (Luke 9.58). He tents ‘among us’ but…
While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer