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Imagining the Lectionary: Possessive or purposeful? (Epiphany 3A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Possessive or purposeful? (Epiphany 3A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Possessive or purposeful? (Epiphany 3A) Reflection accompanying image Yorkshire Dales with walls, barns and text 1Cor 1:17 These stone walls and barns in Swaledale speak of possessiveness and purpose, ownership and effort, division and integrity. Althoug…
Imagining the Lectionary: Good Friday Snapshot
Imagining the Lectionary: Good Friday Snapshot
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Good Friday Snapshot Reflection accompanying image “Jesus dies on the cross” In this one snapshot the cost of loving like God loves is starkly apparent. Jesus takes on all that is life-denying and spirit-crushing and refuses to concede defeat or turn…
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap Monday?
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap Monday?
by David Perry
Holy Week 3: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Cheap MondayReflection accompanying image “Carnaby street easter testimony” Walking down Carnaby Street in London you just can't miss the eye catching skull logo of the Cheap Monday Store. Such death-in-your-face design is an interesti…
Judas Monologue
Judas Monologue
by Michael Docker
A Judas monologue - Judas 'standing at a distance' watching the death throes of Jesus on the cross. Holding in one hand (or miming) a coin, and in the other a piece of bread (as from the Last Supper). Can be read from a central lectern, or acted without a lectern!!): My two hands…
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas
by David Perry
Shopping Mall Nativity 4: Enticed inside Christmas Reflection accompanying image “enticed inside Christmas” So near and yet so far; so close and yet so distant: this vibrant Christmas signage may entice shoppers to enter the store, but once inside its extravagant promise will r…
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Parables, Foxgloves and the morphology of discipleship (Proper 10A, Ordinary 15A) Reflection accompanying image “foxgloves and bee illustrating the morphology of discipleship”. When the sun came out after a day of prolonged rain the foxgloves dripped a…
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only
by David Perry
Shopping Mall Nativity 2: MenKind - if only Reflection accompanying image “menkind” Menkind: if only it were not just the name of a store but also a gender specific collective noun expressing a universal truth about male behaviour. How different our experience of the world woul…
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas
by David Perry
Odd, lonely and outcast: a donkey's perspective on Christmas Reflection accompanying image “odd lonely outcast donkey" As the odd one out and the solitary representative of its kind in a field occupied by a small herd of cattle, this donkey stands alone. Its presence is incongr…
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Muddy boot discipleship (Proper 8A / Ordinary 13A) Reflection accompanying image “Difficult path ahead”. "Don't think I've come to make life cozy. I've come to cut—make a sharp knife-cut between son and father, daughter and mother, bride and mothe…
Blessing the Children
Blessing the Children
by Dave Hopwood
The Great and the Good Bible Ref: Matthew 19-20 & 26; Mark 10 & 14; Luke 17-19; John 11 & 12 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator …
Become Like a Child
Become Like a Child
by Dave Hopwood
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But… Bible Ref: Matthew 16-18; Mark 8 & 9; Luke 9; John 7-8 Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a na…
Good Gifts