While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

Theology

  • God Sends Jesus

    God sends Jesus to invite us all to seek life in the way of God’s far-reaching love. Some refuse the invitation, object to its intrusion, harass Jesus in his service and outreach, crucify him and seal his tomb. Others stand and watch, impotently grieving, as God’s project in Jesus peters out. The cross of Jesus symbolises massive negation of…

  • A Pale Reflection of John 20.11-16 and 15.14-15

    Life is in asking Who am I? Death turns the question to Who was he? Memorials answer for  a moment Then silence Silence Where God is? Where God is silenced? Or where the Word calls what is not  to be beyond question  Friend?

  • 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…

  • There are many theologians in the world

    For some, there is no God. For some, God is a vague shadow around the edges of life For some, God is tremendous presence, filling life, silencing speech For some, God is found in the Bible and in the church For some, God is named the Rock, the God of Israel, For some, God is the Father…

  • Parents as Agents in countering Child Sexual Exploitation

    Pages 344-362 of Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, Edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill Prevette. Regnum, 2024.  Introducing Pace Pace (now called Ivison Trust) is a voluntary charity in the UK which supports parents whose children are sexually exploited or…

  • Reflections on ‘Stepping out of the Traffick’

    Reflections on Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill Prevette, Regnum, 2024.  Published on pp27-30. The varied chapters in this book share two key characteristics. First, they want sexual exploitation to end, the exploiters to be deterred and…

  • What is a person?

    I wish to offer you a few comments at the beginning of this conference.  First, our question, What is a person? would appear to be a question looking for a definition as its appropriate answer. But in parallel with those in the Gospel who looked for a sign, we may say that this is a…

  • Transforming society – or merely making it

    a theological discussion with the Bible in one hand and a very particular newspaper in the other Society for the Study of Theology 1995 What is this paper about? I have been asked to write a paper about theology and the transformation of society or transformation in society. I can only make this a manageable…