Pause for Thought – 28 April 2021
Pause for Thought for 28 April 2021 is now avilable:
Pause for Thought for 28 April 2021 is now avilable:
Matthew 22:15-22 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 It was a very crafty move. We know from the end of Matthew chapter 21 that the chief priests and the Pharisees wanted to arrest Jesus, and their latest ploy was for the Pharisees to join forces with members of Herod’s party to try to trap him. The question they…
Luke 2:22-40 Whenever I stand by the font, holding a baby that’s either damply smiling or damply screaming, I now tend to think about when we stood at the font with Joanna for her baptism. Only after that did I really understand the anxiety every parent has that they might not behave as I wanted,…
Desmond Tutu used to say that if people told him that politics and religion didn’t go together, he wondered what Bible they were reading, because the Bible he read was full of politics. Today we find that politics is at the heart of our praying, because if “your kingdom come” has any meaning at all,…
Luke 9:28-36 As we came down from the mountain, James, John, and me, we were still shaking. I was so confused and trembling so much that I kept stumbling, and John would reach out a hand to steady me. Jesus had told us not to say anything to anyone else about it, not to the…
Our reflection for Holy Saturday 2021 is now available:
Matthew 2:1-12 Deep beneath the Bodleian Library in Oxford, there are many rooms of movable book stacks. Hardly any of the Bodleian’s collection is on open shelves, and most have to be ordered. You used to fill in a little slip, and an hour or so later your book would be ready for you. However,…