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What might we sing at Christmas? – Carol services are in sight…
We used to sing of snow and ice – ‘In the bleak mid winter…’ Victorian sentimentality and sometimes, just sometimes, absolutely beautiful poetry. But a few years ago I was challenged by Rex Hunt of the Uniting Church in Australia. 'When we celebrate Christmas it's midsummer. Could you write s...
Crazy, ragged, ranting prophet – John the Baptist
Crazy, ragged, ranting prophet,
least that’s how some people saw him,
eating locusts and wild honey,
sweeping hypocrites before him.
Standing by the raging river,
raging at unrighteous forces,
calling weak and powerful to him,
sending them on different courses.
This is one...
1 When life's crippled, flawed or faulted,
Filled with fear, with folly strewn;
God is here, yet never thwarted,
Loving in dark sorrow's womb;
God is in each widow's anguish,
God is queuing unemployed,
God will in the prison languish,
God will love, not be destroyed.
2 When work's clamour, noise and chaos
Brings the stress that drags us dow...
The sound of history humming – but what next, ‘a thief within the night’?
Matthew 24: 43
1 The sound of history humming,
as light and matter form,
as galaxies are clustered
within a cosmic storm;
philosophers imagine
while science gathers facts,
we reach for understanding,
yet what we know contracts.
2 We delved beyo...
