A number of people have asked me about the pentecost icon I used in a previous post. It is a contemporary Coptic icon. The best collection of pentecost art I have found is at Biblical-Art.com Here are some of my favourites.
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I was wandering through SAMS this morning feeling totally overwhelmed and a little nauseated by all the Christmas junk that is already out - even Christmas carols playing throughout the store. So I thought that I would fight back with a little reflection on Advent. I know that many of you are looking [...]
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The start of another week and my mind is whirring with the many things I would like to share - the beauty of Fall in Seattle, the horror of the fires in California, my struggles to keep my life balanced in the midst of a busy schedule all come to mind. However uppermost are some [...]
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Tom & I are off on retreat to Anacortes again tomorrow. I really look forward to these times of refreshment and renewal. I thought that this was a good time to share with you another of my favourite Celtic prayers that I use when trying to focus. I thought that you would [...]
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Evidently even the Virgin Mary thought that knitting was spiritual. Here is an abbey altar piece known as “The Visit of the Angels” painted in the late 1300s.
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I wrote this poem a few years ago as a reflection on God’s desire to see all things made new - I come back to it frequently when I am struggling to understand what God is doing in our world
Rejoice forever in what I will do
Earth and heaven are being made new
No more weeping or [...]
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This morning’s psalm was Psalm 31, one of my favourites. Thirty years ago when I lived in New Zealand I had a leather Bible cover made that I still use for my bible. It has the words “I trust in you, Lord; I say your are my God. My times are in your hands. ” [...]
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On Sunday Carla Pryne was away and Rev Ralph Carskadden preached a very powerful and compelling sermon about the upside down values of God’s kingdom. Here is a portion of that sermon I thought you might find interesting.
When gazing at the splendid Madonna of the Magnificat by Botticelli, contemporaries of the artist would have seen [...]
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You can probably tell from my reflections over the last few weeks that I am spending a lot of time meditating on the many faces of Jesus in different cultures, in different ages and in this post in different situations.
I have always been fascinated by how Christians perceive Jesus. It is interesting to me [...]
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I just came across this beautiful picture of Jesus healing the lunatic boy on Matt Stone’s blog while I was hunting for paintings of Jesus from different cultures He has lots of other views of Jesus from African, Native American, Aboriginal and other cultures that I think you might enjoy as well.
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