The Christ child is the light who enlightens the world and as his love takes root in our hearts and lives, it causes us to light up the darkness.
The Christ child is the light who enlightens the world and as his love takes root in our hearts and lives, it causes us to light up the darkness.
When God is understood through the revelation of Jesus and his pattern of relating, then we discover ourselves invited into generous and gracious solidarity with all creation.
The resurrection of Jesus has made it possible for everyone to live fully, now, but not everyone feels ready to live.
The reputation that matters is a reputation for loving as Jesus loved and, like him, that will be seen as disreputable.
True forgiveness, which we encounter most fully in the risen Christ, does not gloss over the past but revisits it fully and carefully that we may be fully set free from it.
A reflection on the Good Friday story of the crucifixion from the perspective of the disciple Joanna.
Extravagant expressions of love are a sign of the culture of God, and Jesus models generous giving and receiving of them, regardless of the scandal they cause.
In Christ we are one with all flesh and blood, and so our struggle is not against any other people, but against the spirits and powers and forces which would divide people and make them enemies.
If God seems unjust, we can and should question God’s integrity, for God welcomes our questions in order that the falsehoods might be stripped away and the truth revealed.
The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.
The Church is one body, sent into the world to live the life Jesus has begun, a life of love, reconciliation and mercy.
Jesus invites us into a new relationship with God and with one another based on love and friendship instead of power and rivalry.
God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.
The life and death of Jim Stynes give a contemporary picture of what it means to give your life away.
Judgement is not something God angrily inflicts on us, but simply the fulfilment of our own decisions.
As difficult as it is to imagine, God is shockingly present with us in Jesus.
The Spirit is there for us where ever we gather in the one place for that one purpose.
The gratuitous mercy made known in the resurrected Christ requires us to rethink the nature of God all the way back to creation.
Jesus offers himself to the world from a vulnerable place on the margins, and he calls us to trust the Holy Spirit and do likewise.
United with Christ in baptism we cross the threshold from death to life, and in Eucharist we continue to touch the scars which nourish our faith and inspire our worship.