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Holding the ‘whys’ together 

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Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Job 1.1, 2.1-10 Psalm 26 Hebrews 1.1-4, 2.5-12 Mark 10.2-16                                                 ©Suzanne Grimmett Anyone who has raised children may have suffered through the toddler time where … Read more

“Relatedness and relation”   

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 Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Proverbs 31:10-31 Psalm1 James 3:1-12 Mark 9:30-37 Sunday 22 September 2024                               ©Lauren Martin The reading from Proverbs 31 begins with the question, who can … Read more

Called to authenticity       

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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost James 1.17-27 Mark 7.1-8, 14-23 1 September 2024                                        ©Suzanne Grimmett The great theologian Paul Tillich described “self-integration” as one of the most basic functions of … Read more

Sacred Violence

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Today we have two stories, that although different, are both equally horrifying. In the story of David and Goliath, we hear how David will cut off Goliath’s head and how they will leave the bodies of the Philistine army for animals to scavenge, ‘so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.’[1] The Psalm also contains this theme of sacred violence as proof of God’s favour. This Psalm attributed to David portrays his cause as righteous with his enemies, who conveniently also happen to be God’s enemies. How do we look at these texts?

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