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Red Alert
Church leaders who style themselves "Orthodox" or "Authentic" are endangering the "Anglican Spirit" of toleration by seeking to impose a high degree of confessional detail and oppression. Bishops should be shepherds not security guards. If we think of The Church as an aircraft, it will crash if we put operating procedures above ensuring that we have enough fuel, in the form of love, to stay airborne; all the instruments are on red.
Year A, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 28th April 2008
The Peace of The Cross
Peace is not an absence nor an escape into emptiness, it is being open to the Spirit, imitating Jesus and making an unconditional offer to God. When we exchange The Peace it is not ours but the peace of the Cross.
Year C, The Sixth Sunday of Easter; Added: 24th October 2007
Theology and Nostalgia
After an era of solidity, the 1960s brought a time of turbulence which persists and tempts us to nostalgia, just as the era of Jesus was nostalgic for David and Solomon; his listeners had not tools for recognising him; are our tools any better or do we rely on 'childish' religion?
Year A, The Fifth Sunday of Easter; Added: 27th March 2007