Christmas Trees: An Advent Journey | Part Two: Tender Hope for Fragile Lives
A reflection on the Hiroshima survivor trees, Isaiah’s “tender shoot,” and how hope grows quietly in dry ground — unnoticed, resilient, and alive.
Christmas Trees: An Advent Journey | Part One: Hope for a World Cut Down
In this first of three reflections for Advent, Paul considers what Advent means in a world that feels cut to the stump. If you look around at the world right now, optimism feels like a distant memory. At the turn of the millennium, many of us believed a more connected world would be a safer, …
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Remember Who You Are
Paul reflects on the paradox of Ash Wednesday, that we are both dust and beloved.
Rumours of Light
The opening of John’s gospel provides some of the richest poetry in all literature. As an erstwhile English teacher, I am drawn back time and time again to the complex layering of metaphor as John urges us to begin to conceptualise this miracle of miracles – God made flesh. In the beginning was the Word, and …
The Last of Ourselves
Trusting God with the last of ourselves… Emma concludes our Lenten series with a meditation on the seventh last saying of Jesus.
Thirsting for the Kingdom
What are we thirsting after? Paul considers this question by listening to the fifth and sixth last sayings of Jesus on the cross.
God-forsaken Questions
Is it part of Christian faith to accept the inexplicability of evil? Paul continues his Lent reflections by contemplating the fourth last saying of Jesus from the cross.
Behold Ohana
This third Lenten reflection comes on the week when Paul attended the funeral of a former student. How does Christ want us to respond to sudden loss?
Paradise Regained
Transhumanism promises paradise. But where does this leave God? Paul reflects on the second of Jesus’ last sayings from the cross.
We do not know what we are doing.
Paul begins a series of lenten reflections on the last words of Jesus spoken from the cross.