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Reflecting on the Psalms: Prayer as an outcry against enemies

Sep 25, 2021

When we pray, we come with all our faculties of memory, understanding and will.
Jesus witnessed economic hardship first-hand

Sep 18, 2021

The pandemic has taken a huge toll on workers around the world. Many have lost their jobs as the trend towards contract workers, already happening in pre-COVID times, has sped up.
The triumph of good over evil

Sep 18, 2021

Good should always triumph over evil – but, but, given human freedom, there are no guarantees – except for the promise given us in the resurrection.
Reflecting on the Psalms: De Profundis

Sep 18, 2021

Prayer, we used to say, is the raising of the mind and heart to God, “the conversation of the mind addressed to God.”
Forgive us our trespasses

Sep 11, 2021

In the Lord’s Prayer, we are reminded: “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Under a bridge in Austin

Sep 11, 2021

Recently at a workshop, a woman shared her anxiety about the death of her brother. Her older brother had died from the Covid virus before there were vaccines for it, and had died because he had dangerously exposed himself to catching the virus.
Reflecting on the Psalms: Divine Splendour and Human Frailty

Sep 11, 2021

People are often worried about how long they will live on this earth. We care for our health in many ordinary and extraordinary ways.
Finding blessed assurance amidst the pandemic

Sep 04, 2021

Responding to the new norms, we echo the cry of Bartimaeus: “Lord, that I may see (again).” Every adversity is an opportunity.
Different ways of being spiritual not religious

Sep 04, 2021

When, for every kind of good reason we can cherry-pick those parts of family and community we like and avoid those parts we find difficult, we are spiritual but not religious.
He the Vine, We the Branches

Sep 04, 2021

As we meditate on this psalm, we pray as the Church with all its struggles and challenges, its tensions and oppositions, both within and without.