While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

Today

  • Christmas mistaken?

    God is love, overflowing love to all the world … we celebrate the birth of Jesus within that larger perspective. And, we are told, God is in control, God is always with us. In our religion, the two blend together, and  their relation is not critically evaluated. The first I believe and want to follow.…

  • Jesus Wept

    How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange country (Psalm 137)? How can a cheerful, or at least a cheering blog, be written in this world as it is, as we make it, as we let it go on being, as it looks like becoming? Jesus drew crowds to festivals of teaching, healing and food.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…