Recognising Jesus as Lord requires such a reversal of conventional values that it cannot but dangerously transform us.
Recognising Jesus as Lord requires such a reversal of conventional values that it cannot but dangerously transform us.
To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority.
Jesus invites us to find our communion in the violence done to him instead of in doing violence to others.
Jesus becomes a victim of our systems of feeding on one another in order to forgive us, set us free, and nourish us for life.
The God who we encounter in such different ways is, nevertheless, the one God, and we are called to share in the life of this one God.
Love is a gift which we invited to become at home in, receiving and enjoying it, not questioning, measuring and regulating it.
God will do great things with us, but will not impose them on us, so we have to relinquish control before God brings about the growth we crave.
In the encounter with Jesus, our self-delusion and our scapegoating are painfully exposed, but with the possibility of forgiveness and freedom.
In the nativity we see the light of living grace, in all its vulnerability, shining into the darkness of the world’s violence and divisiveness.
To those for whom the griefs of yesterday or the fear of tomorrow is just too much, come Lord Jesus.
The way to enter the life of God is found in Jesus, in relationship with the incarnate life of God.
Our struggles against evil, temptation and suffering are all framed by the security of God’s unshakable love and resolve to bring us safely to fullness of life.
Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby is on its parents.
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.
When God accepts and gifts those who are supposed to be excluded according to our theology, then its time to change our theology to a rule of love instead of a rule of purity.
Jesus’s resurrection was a sign which declared that Jesus’ cause was God’s cause, that Jesus’ values were God’s values, that Jesus’ people were God’s people.
The risen Christ is extravagantly generous and excruciatingly unwilling to settle for pious platitudes in return.
The experience of the resurrected Christ may not be as instantly transformative as we’ve often thought, but those who seek Christ’s self-revelation will grow into his mission.
God’s love is like a refuge from the storm, like the hospitality of a generous host, like the continuing delight of a bridegroom for his bride, and like the alchemical power of the miracle-worker transforming even our fear and inconstancy into the power to love, forgive, and cherish.