Sick at heart
- Written by Lorraine Cavanagh Lorraine Cavanagh
- Published: 27 June 2017 27 June 2017
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It takes a while for living compostable material to rot down and become the stuff of life again. It’s best not to examine it too closely while this is happening.
Perhaps this is what the Church of England was thinking during the decades spanning the abuse of vulnerable people by one of its prelates and by another highly regarded individual whose integrity was compromised by, presumably, the toxic mix of sado-eroticism and religion.
British values from Jeremiah to Grenfell Tower
- Written by Jonathan Clatworthy Jonathan Clatworthy
- Published: 21 June 2017 21 June 2017
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This is my sermon for this coming Sunday, published early in case any other preacher wants to pinch bits. The text is Jeremiah 20:7-13.
It compares the recent changes in British values with the tensions in Judean values at the time of Jeremiah.
Justification by faith
- Written by Jonathan Clatworthy Jonathan Clatworthy
- Published: 15 June 2017 15 June 2017
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This is my sermon for this coming Sunday, based on the Lectionary epistle, published in advance in case any other preacher wants to pinch bits.
It is planned for the Open Table service for the LGBT+ community in Liverpool, on its ninth birthday.
One love
- Written by Lorraine Cavanagh Lorraine Cavanagh
- Published: 09 June 2017 09 June 2017
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‘There is no fear in love’ (1 John 4:18).
If I’m honest about it, these words strike me as optimistic, even somewhat whimsical.
Most people’s life experience has demonstrated at one time or another that fear takes absolute precedence when it comes to violent defining moments, or ‘crises’, in the full sense of the word.
Why Christians should vote for a different government. 15) Votes
- Written by Jonathan Clatworthy Jonathan Clatworthy
- Published: 03 June 2017 03 June 2017
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This post is the last in my series summarising some of the arguments in my new book Why Progressives Need God.
An election looms. How do we decide who to vote for?