Setting Sail: Conversations before General Synod
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The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson
Deacons: proclaiming the alternative kingdom
Diaconal ministry points to our lives’ purpose.
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A witness to the holy in a bleared, smeared world
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge & shares [...]
Becoming bread
The young man joins the crowd at the edge of the water. He hears the preacher’s words, abrasive words made harsher by the shouting that makes the baptist audible above the rumble of a thousand murmurs.
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People are already stewards
Many years ago, Jim Cruickshank (not yet “Bishop Jim”) led a youth conference in the diocese of Edmonton with the theme “To live is to choose.” He helped participants explore how choosing is woven into the fabric of our lives – this instead of that, this because of that, this because it leads to that. [...]
read moreQuestions that pull beyond the horizon
“Why can’t reason give us greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?” — Piscine Molitor Patel, narrator of The Life of Pi
With respect to the author, Pi’s question isn’t really a child’s question. The child’s question would be more like, “When I throw this question over [...]
