My understanding of God has undergone a significant transformation in the past 9 months. Perhaps the simplest way for me to describe it is that I now think of God in ‘impersonal’ terms rather than ‘personal.’ What I mean by […]
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One of the most well known parables attributed to Jesus is that of the ‘Good Samaritan.’ It is found only in the Gospel of Luke. When tested by a lawyer trained in the Law of Moses on what a person
What does it mean to give ourselves to God? Before pondering the answer to that question, perhaps we need to ask a different question first: who, or what is God? The ‘traditional’ Christian image of God has been that of
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One of the most well known exchanges that takes place between Jesus and the Jewish religious leaders in the gospels is that involving the question posed to Jesus, by the religious leaders, as to whether it was lawful for the
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In the Gospel of Mark, the journey of Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem is bracketed by two stories that involve Jesus restoring the sight of someone who is blind. In the first instance Jesus comes to the town of Bethsaida
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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche. Freud saw the psyche structured into three parts (i.e., tripartite), the id, ego,
I’ve noted in previous blogs on the parish website that the Gospel of Mark is acknowledged by the majority of scholars to be the first gospel written. It is believed to have been written shortly before or after the destruction
One of the beliefs of Christianity is the “Second Coming of Jesus” the time when Jesus will return to the world to judge who is and isn’t worthy to enter the kingdom of God, which implies that the kingdom has
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The gospel reading for Sunday 29 September (the 19th Sunday after Pentecost) begins with one of his disciples telling Jesus that he and the other disciples had witnessed a man performing exorcisms in the name of Jesus, and they had
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We know that for the longest time in human history, women were not afforded the same rights and/or opportunities as men. Perhaps the best example of this was the right to vote in political elections, which was only granted as
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