During Lent we are presented in our Readings with many of the most familiar scripture stories. Maybe it’s a way to focus us back on the clearest summations of what our faith is all about. Today we hear the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:1-3, 11-32), which is certainly up there as one of […]
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We really, really want to believe that bad things happen to bad people and not to good people. We know this isn’t true, the evidence is all around us. Bad things happen to good people, and good things also happen to bad people. There is simply no connection. The people of Jesus’s time were equally
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The Transfiguration is a strange event. That’s obvious at the superficial level, but it remains strange when we dig a bit further. Jesus takes just a select three of his disciples and they have an experience which is literally out of this world. It’s much more dramatic than the Resurrection, where there were no out
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We know that Jesus was “fully human” – in other words he was just like us. When we hear a story like Luke’s account of Jesus being tempted in the desert (Luke 4:1-13) does it help us to feel more like him, or not? I suspect for many of us the answer is “not so
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Although it’s often repeated, no one knows where the phrase “the eyes are the windows of the soul” originated. The sentiment is carried through in the belief that looking (deeply) into someone’s eyes will tell you whether they love you, or can be trusted in a business deal, or are a “good person”. Today’s readings
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