Given the sort of risk and physical crap the bible says Mary had to survive in order to have a baby I’ve always thought that Lara Croft (from the video game Tomb Raider) might be a more appropriate image of the mother of Christ rather than domesticated, insipidly pale faced, blue veiled, watery eyed portraits [...]
Advent 4 – Colouring within the Lines
December 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
2 Samuel 7: 1-17 Have you ever sat in a kindergarten class? Watched kids attempt to gain control over the paint and pencils and stencils? Heard the teacher’s prompting and the kids consternation about colouring in the lines? I like colouring in the lines – I like the neat tidy ordered controlled aspects – the [...]
Advent 3 – Year B
December 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Posted by Darren: 1 Thes 5:16-24 Psalm 851-2, 8-13 John 1:1-8 1:6-8, 19-28 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Song ideas for the week: Together To Celebrate I’ve got to stop reading and thinking the same things as Larli, she’s written a great reflection on this week’s reading from Isaiah… Anna suggests that the intended audience of the [...]
Year B – Advent 3
December 10, 2008 By 1 Comment
1 Thes 5:16-24 Psalm 851-2, 8-13 John 1:1-8 1:6-8, 19-28 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Song ideas for the week: Together To Celebrate So here we are – back in Jerusalem. We were inspired back here by a prophet whose poetry could carry us on the desert journey back up the Euphrates through the heat…but even more [...]
Year B / Advent 1
December 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Alternative DigitalOrthodoxy Reflections on Year B / Advent 1: a) Pathways Readings for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Isaiah 64:1-9 (NRSV) 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 (NRSV) Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (NRSV) Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV) Song ideas for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Together To Celebrate: Year B / Advent 1 Lectionary Song: Year [...]
Year B / Advent 1
November 24, 2008 By 2 Comments
Alternative DigitalOrthodoxy Reflections on Year B / Advent 1: a) Snapshots from the War on Drugs Readings for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Isaiah 64:1-9 (NRSV) 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 (NRSV) Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (NRSV) Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV) Song ideas for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Together To Celebrate: Year B / [...]
Year B / Advent 1
November 24, 2008 By 2 Comments
Alternative DigitalOrthodoxy Reflections on Year B / Advent 1: a) Pathways Readings for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Isaiah 64:1-9 (NRSV) 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 (NRSV) Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (NRSV) Mark 13:24-37 (NRSV) Song ideas for the week: Year B / Advent 1 Together To Celebrate: Year B / Advent 1 Lectionary Song: Year [...]
O Little(?) Town of Bethlehem
January 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Luke 2: 1-7 O little town of Bethlehem,/ how still we see thee lie… A popular image of Bethlehem and Christmas is portrayed in this reading and that hymn. An image of Bethlehem that have inspired visits and Christmas cards for over a century. The song was written by Philip Brooks after a visit he [...]
John 1 6-8,19-28: (Advent 3): Firey Beach Baptsim
December 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Advent 2 -Year B (Mark 1:1-8)
December 7, 2005 By Leave a Comment
“Prepare the Way of the Lord”… I used this weeks gospel reading as the Call to Worship at Urban Seed: church last Sunday…. This week’s gospel reading is again about the coming of Christ as presented in the prologue of Mark’s story of Jesus. Marks gospel has been very important to me and to Melbourne [...]
