god’s funeral
A favourite poem – God’s Funeral, by Thomas Hardy. A/theistic theology at its best… I I saw a slowly-stepping train – Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar – Following in files across a...
View Articlemore reflections on easter… and a workshop tomorrow
I’m leading a workshop tomorrow for the metropolitan prison chaplains – an inter-faith group, consisting of Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian chaplains from the prisons / remand centres across the...
View Articleenough with the analysis already
So we workshopped… it was a fascinating morning. I know less now than I did before. It confirmed for me that the way we work with hope – the language we use to invoke it, and the role we believe we...
View Articlewhen the inevitable is no longer sure
a first thought for the prison on easter sunday Today we find ourselves in a world where the inevitable no longer seems sure, and we wonder what else is made possible because of the resurrection: what...
View ArticleGood Friday for the prison
I am so late in getting this all organised… We’re inviting the women to write some responses at each section of the service, which will be used for Holy Saturday with images of Pietas. One of the...
View ArticleHoly Saturday
They call this day Holy Saturday when hope has died when God is dead and buried. They call this day holy because we finally understand what it is to be human and what it is to be divine. They call this...
View Articlea few random bits from sunday in the prison
I wrote this gathering a few years ago but never used it. this seemed to be the year. We are here because we’re people who have heard a rumour that there’s life to be found on the other side of...
View Articlereclaiming uni-tasking
The woman at the cafe gave me my coffee free this morning - it’s so lovely to have you back, she said. It’s only been ten days, but it really does feel like i’ve been away for ever. Easter in the...
View Articlea palm sunday sending out
for the Remand Centre this thursday : And now we lay down the palm branches. And with them we lay down our belief that there is another way for you to be God. As the last echo of the final alleluia...
View Articlegood friday 2014
This is for tomorrow in the remand centre. We have six services spread over the day there… I’ve been thinking a lot, after going to numerous services in prisons around the state over the last couple of...
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