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Reflections 8 – 14 April
8 April, Wednesday The man at the gate Beautiful had been there every day; proximity to the holy place is no guarantee of encounter with the holy. Peter and John had neither silver nor gold; what they offered instead was the only currency that never devalues. Healing happens through the name, not through the healers;…
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Reflections 1 – 7 April 2026
Betrayal hides in the ordinary — passed bread, shared cups, small surrenders before the larger fall. Yet the same table that holds our turning away also holds our return. Joy and fear occupy the same body; the Resurrection does not tidy away the trembling. It sends us running into Galilee, toward everyone — because the…
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In the Easter story, women are the first to proclaim the resurrection – but…
Women made up only 14% of U.S. congregation leaders as of 2018-19, despite constituting nearly a quarter of professional clergy. That gap sits uneasily alongside Easter Gospel narratives in which women are the first — and sometimes only — witnesses to the resurrection.
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Reflections 25 – 31 March
Mary’s simple yes births salvation as Abraham’s children pick up stones against the eternal I Am. The good shepherd voluntarily lays down his life, transforming death into gift through freely chosen love. In a busy week, palm branches wave but crucify tomorrow; hosannas turn to hatred. Yet love never wavers, never chooses escape.
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Ending the Trump-Netanyahu war in the Middle East
The question of whether the world is already in the opening phase of World War III is raised with unusual directness. The Israel-US war on Iran, the threat to global energy supplies, and the absence of any credible peace process combine into a scenario analysts describe as a genuine civilizational risk.
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Reflections 18 – 24 March
The Father’s work never ceases; Sabbath rest becomes love in action, mercy refusing to pause even for sacred rules. Guards return empty-handed from arresting incomprehensible truth. When love calls Lazarus by name, death surrenders its grip.
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‘Throw away the key’ mindset
The story of Nancy, an Oregon mother who rebuilt her life after incarceration, illustrates how faith-based support inside prison walls produces better outcomes for individuals, families and entire communities.
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Reflections 11 – 17 March
The law points toward love like fingers pointing toward the moon; fulfillment comes through living well, way beyond rule-keeping. All commandments hang on two: love God, love neighbor, the root from which all goodness grows.
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Synodality, local churches, and the end of Eurocentric theology
Asian theologians shifted the language of mission from ad gentes (“to the nations”) to inter gentes (“among the nations”). That single preposition change carries enormous weight: it replaces a one-directional, subject-to-object model with a dialogical encounter between communities, cultures, and equals.
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When the bombs fall on other people’s children
There is a bitter irony that demands to be spoken plainly. At home, America cannot stop bullets from entering schools. Abroad, it helps deliver death from the sky and asks the world to call it order. When outrage is calibrated by passport, when foreign children dissolve into geopolitical footnotes while our own are memorialised by…
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