Category: Jesus
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43. Which Jesus…
September 2017 People in church circles often talk about Jesus as if it’s perfectly obvious who they are referring to, but increasingly I find myself wanting to ask ‘which Jesus are you talking about?’ I know that my question will baffle them: ‘there’s only one Jesus’ they will reply, and of course in one sense they…
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33. The Resurrection of Jesus
August 2016 I’ve been brought up as a Christian, I committed myself to follow Christ in my teens, I felt called called by God to be a Christian priest and was duly ordained. The Christian faith is the star that I have sought to follow all my life, and central to it, its foundation stone, is…
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21. A New Vision of Christianity
December 2015 A friend of mine, Les Acklam, recently introduced me to some words by John Spong in the introduction to his most recent book “The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic”. I found these words compelling and have shared them with others who have also found that they speak to their experience, so I…
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12. The Spirituality of Jesus can be ours too
February 2015 I sense that all of the above is important because these elements of Jesus spirituality are potentially ours too. We don’t need a complicated system of teaching in order to grow as people and in relationship to God. All we need to do is the follow Jesus’ example. [1] We all stand in a…
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11. The Spirituality of Jesus
February 2015 I have been wondering about the spirituality of Jesus, and how I might describe it. Nowhere in the Gospels is it described directly, so I need to try and infer it from what we know. There seem to me to be at least several recognisable elements. [1] Jesus clearly stands within a tradition [see my…
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10. Did Jesus have a spiritual director?
January 2015 You might think of John the Baptist? Tradition talks of them as cousins, and the Gospel assumes that they were ‘family’. But John does seem to have had his doubts about Jesus [Luke 7:18-23] which perhaps casts doubt on their having this sort of relationship? Mary and Joseph seem more likely candidates. Its difficult…
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9. What is spiritual direction?
January 2015 Classically it is understood as a conversation between two people in which one helps the other to recognise God’s presence in their life, and then supports them in responding to it. Today that tends to be a matter of regular meetings every couple of months. But I’m sure that most spiritual direction doesn’t…
A CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY 