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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Have Not Found A Woman
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - I Have Not Found A Woman
by SPCK - John Goldingay
I Have Not Found A Woman I just had a message from a young friend who will be in town next week and wants to come to see us. It’s only a few months since she emailed to tell us that she had maybe found the man of her dreams, a man whose instincts about Christian ministry match he…
Great Christian Thinkers - 63 St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Great Christian Thinkers - 63 St. Elizabeth of Hungary
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Another great woman of the Middle Ages who inspired the greatest admiration is St. Elizabeth of Hungary, also called St. Elizabeth of Thuringia… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - Easter 6a
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - Easter 6a
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A Free Resource to use at home for Easter 6a. The Vine at Home series has been especially published to use during the Coronavirus. It is adapted from The Vine, which is a weekly resource created to be used in Local Arrangement services and service preparation. The Vine at Home is…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8b Changing contexts
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8b Changing contexts
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Changing contexts Now, a little bit of autobiography. I am a child of the 1960s, a baby boomer, and therefore I am part of the luckiest generation that has ever grown up in this country, and probably in any of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 21 Freedom in Mission Full Identification
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 21 Freedom in Mission Full Identification
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Freedom in Mission Full Identification Paul has now come to the centre of his third essay, which is on the subject of how a Christian can live in a pagan society. “Freedom and responsibility” continue to be the overall focus… Taken from Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth …
Exodus and Leviticus - Improving on Creation
Exodus and Leviticus - Improving on Creation
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Improving on Creation LEVITICUS : 19: 19- 20:27 When a man and his wife are about to go out and the wife asks whether she looks okay, the appropriate answer is “You look lovely” (not “Maybe that dress and those shoes don’t go together”). If she then says, “Is that what you really…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Third Sunday of Easter - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing or Come let us sing a melody Prayer: God of compassion Hymn: Can we by searching find out God or The longest, hardest roads we travel Reading: Psalm 116:1-4; 12–19. Hymn: Amazing …
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 8 SUMMONING YOUR TRUE SELF
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 8 SUMMONING YOUR TRUE SELF
by Christine Valters Painter
SUMMONING YOUR TRUE SELF In the previous chapter I focused on meditatio, the second movement of lectio divina, which immerses us in an experience of savouring the sacred words, listening for what they stir within us, and then making room to welcome in our feelings. In this chapte…
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: The utter incongruity of faith devoid of practical compassion (Proper 25A; Ordinary 30A) Reflection accompanying images “Autumn leaves in abandoned steel sink” A pile of autumn leaves in the bottom of a kitchen sink is a profoundly incongruous and unex…
Great Christian Thinkers - 66 Marguerite D'Oingt
Great Christian Thinkers - 66 Marguerite D'Oingt
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
Marguerite D'Oingt With Marguerite d’Oingt, we are introduced to Carthusian spirituality, which draws its inspiration from the evangelical synthesis lived and proposed by St. Bruno. We do not know the date of her birth, although some place it around 1240. Marguerite came from a p…
Meeting God in Paul - 3b The image of God in us
Meeting God in Paul - 3b The image of God in us
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The image of God in us But there’s more to it, because of course what St Paul is evoking is not a Jesus who simply sits on the throne of heaven and receives our prayers, but a Jesus who – because his own life in time and eternity consists entirely in pouring out praise and love t…
Letters to London - 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell and the Cromwell family Part 1
Letters to London - 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell and the Cromwell family Part 1
by SPCK - Stephen J.Plant and Toni Burrowes-Cromwell
9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell and the Cromwell family Part 1 Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell were all written in German. Only the last of the 12, the letter from Finkenwalde of 27 March 1936, was typewritten. The handwritten letters were initially trans…
Jeremiah for everyone - Truth to Power
Jeremiah for everyone - Truth to Power
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Truth to Power As I write, the Australian founder of Wikileaks is effectively a prisoner in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. If he leaves the embassy, Britain will arrest him and hand him over to authorities in Sweden that have sought his extradition…
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - Easter 5a
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - Easter 5a
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A Free Resource to use at home for for Easter 5a and Vocation Sunday. The Vine at Home series has been especially published to use during the Coronavirus. It is adapted from The Vine, which is a weekly resource created to be used in Local Arrangement services and service preparat…
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - Pentecost Sunday
The Vine at Home - The Vine at Home - Pentecost Sunday
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A Free Resource to use at home for Pentecost Sunday. The Vine at Home series has been especially published to use during the Coronavirus. It is adapted from The Vine, which is a weekly resource created to be used in Local Arrangement services and service preparation. The Vine at …
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Third Sunday of Easter Year B