Well the plugin I put together to handle redirection from the old site to the new was working great until I thought “let’s tidy it up and make it presentable”. So I had to spend a couiple of hours messing everything up. I hope normal service has now been resumed! If it has I’ll post …
Yearly Archives: 2006
Testing, testing, testing…
Well this is my old blog in a new location. If you visit the old location you should automatically be sent here … at least for a month or so until I close the old one down. Please update your bookmarks if you have any. This post is also a test to see what happens …
Wednesday Week 23 Year II
Readings: 1 Cor 7:25-31; Lk 6:20-26 Setting his misogyny aside, I do love Paul’s urgency and absolute conviction that everything has changed. Everything is different after the death and resurrection of Jesus, with a difference that has diverted human—and even cosmic history—in a new direction. And in that new direction all the old rules cease …
Changing Address
Until now this blog has been living at http://rmarsh.com/ but with a web redirect from my ‘real’ domain http://rmarsh.com/. Unfortunately I’ve been having problems with my domain registrar’s email forwarding and have decided to make a move. This is where the trouble begins! My blog will continue to be accessible from http://rmarsh.com/ but will shortly cease …
Sunday Week 23 Year B
Readings: Isaiah 35:4-7; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 It seems likely that that word ephphatha, be opened, was the first thing that man ever heard. That he came to hearing with that as his first word. Wouldn’t it echo in his opened ears for the rest of his life? Wouldn’t that be the word he cherished …
Wednesday Week 22 Year II
Readings: 1 Cor 3:1-9; Luke 4:38-44 What would it take for us to be weaned? For us to be beyond the milk of spirituality—past the rusks and the stewed apple even—and eating the spiritual food of adults? Paul is pretty clear that the first thing to go would have to be the jealousy and wrangling …
Beheading of John the Baptist
Readings: Jeremiah 1:17-19; Mark 6:17-29 You could hardly have two readings more calculated to contradict each other than these. The first is bracing with promise: you will be a pillar of iron, a wall of bronze; they will not overcome you. And it’s quite a ‘they’ arrayed against the prophet: kings, princes, priests, and people. …
Sunday Week 20 Year B
When I was at university some friends of mine signed up for VSO, Voluntary Service Overseas, to head off for Papua New Guinea. With the ghoulish interest of a 21 year old I thought to myself ‘mmm, cannibals! head-hunters!’ and hit the library, intent on scaring the life out of my buddies. I discovered that …
Sunday Week 19 Year B
Bread. Bread for the journey, bread to keep you going in the desert when you are done with doing… We join Elijah in mid story, sulking under a tree. ‘I’ve had enough. I want to die.’ But in truth he’s been eating the bread of death for a long time. He’s been fighting a guerrilla …
Paying the Price
I’ve been indulging a guilty pleasure for a few weeks: watching my way through the DVDs of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer‘. I’m trying to spin it out now that I’m closing in on the final episodes so maybe some theological reflection on the topic will help delay me. ‘Buffy’ is full of insights that jog …