While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

Luke

  • 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…

  • Questions to ask when reading Luke’s parables 

    In a recent talk, Haddon points to a connection between Luke’s parables and Nathan’s parable in 2 Samuel 12. Luke’s stories are not like the puzzling parables which begin ‘the kingdom of heaven is like …’. They are more like Nathan’s parable in 2 Samuel 12. Nathan tells David a parable about a cruel rich…

  • This Answers To That

    Is THIS, No one is safe until everyone is safe – we applied it to the pandemic, but why not our economy? | Rowan Williams | The Guardian the answer to THAT, The Guardian view on charities and the cost of living crisis: overwhelming needs | Editorial | The Guardian? ‘THAT’ warns that ‘as more and more people struggle with…

  • 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.…