‘Belonging’
REFLECTION: This is an exciting and challenging time for the SSUC congregation-community-garden.
‘Kin and clay … stories and spirit’
HOMILY: The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) says that a person is both spirit and matter, eternal and temporal, and that despair (Kierkegaard’s word for sin) consists in clinging to one or the other.
‘Lasting fidelity and mutual affection’
HOMILY: My heart is like a singing bird …
‘Death and Bleeding: Gaza and Israel in Mark’s gospel’
HOMILY: You will all be aware of the conflict that is happening in the middle west (middle east) at present. How could you not?
‘This much at least … much more’
HOMILY: A poetic utterance by Jesus (in the context of friends troubled, bewildered) evokes all manner of settings. Rooms, mansions …
‘The beautiful shore’
HOMILY: A voyage to the other side may evoke curiosity, connection, communication; reaching out for help, overcoming confusion, affirming differences; transition, translation.
‘Bread broken and given’
HOMILY: “[W]e must not seek Christ’s presence in the dense reality of unbroken bread”, writes theologian G.P. Ambrose (The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet, 2012).
‘In praise of the Holy Spirit’
HOMILY: What Jesus says today about the Holy Spirit and about inclusivity/family can help us with our table talk about church repairs and future directions.
‘Stretch out your hand’
HOMILY: Our icon for today is a Byzantine mosaic which depicts Jesus healing a person with a withered hand. “Stretch out your hand,” says Jesus.
‘Love shared in the power of love’
HOMILY: “Perichoresis”, from the Greek peri, “around” and chorein, “to make room for” or “to dance” (as in choreography), is one of the oldest and most important words in the history of trinitarian theology …
