The Broadcast

I have found it all to easy to become over familiar with certain bible passages.  Usually the stories that you got taught at sunday school.  The ones you could almost recite from memory complete with song and accompanying actions.  I have felt challenged recently to go back to those passages and dig deeper than maybe I have done before. [...]

When I was a student in London I would travel regularly from my home town by train into Paddington station. The train would often stop just outside the station where I would always be drawn to a piece of graffiti written on a nearby wall.  The graffiti read ‘far away is always close at hand in images of elsewhere’.  Quite philosophical for a [...]

The parable of the other son

‘An eye to which nothing is shown but black objects judges something dirty white or even darkly mottled to be whiteness itself’
For the Pharisees and Scribes grace hurt.  The dark objects of legalism and religion had become resident in their hearts and minds. With no frame of reference for an [...]