I learned this week that I am to be an uncle. My brother and his wife are to be parents and my mother is to be a grandparent. Not just a new life coming to term, growing into being, but a whole web of new relationships being born. I’ve done nothing but wait, but who …
Monthly Archives: October 1999
Sunday Week 29 Year A
I want everyone to take out a coin and have a look at it. Read it. Smell it. Feel it. And keep hold of it! I don’t know how many of you have seen a British pound coin… They are about the size of a nickel, but maybe three times as thick, and they are …
Sunday Week 28 Year A
We have no right to be here… any of us. But here we are. The last few weeks the gospel stories from Matthew have been putting the question over and over again: who is worthy to be in God’s kingdom? Remember the labourers in the vineyard who get paid a flat rate no matter how …
Wednesday Week 27 Year I
Sometimes God has no right to be merciful! If God wasn’t so damned merciful the world would be a much better place. Why does God let us get away with so much? How is that we can murder each other and nothing happens? That we can torture the innocent, deprive the poor, and defile the …