Dinner Table Communion
A community of kindred spirits Gathered in warm exchange. Sharing fellowship And a sense of mutual reflection. ‘How do you feel?’ he asks. In polite euphemisms,…
Kairos Moment
Only now, In the stillness of reflection. Only now, In life’s wilderness, Does Your voice Like softly falling rain, Slowly seep into consciousness. Filling the heart’s…
Christmas Bowl 2017
Christmas Bowl presentation BPUC morning service, 24 December 2017 Did you see the video from last year’s Christmas Bowl Appeal? It told the stories of two…
Treadmilling
Across the business of the working day You call. And we stay our course, Incessantly tapping Keyboards full of crucial trivia That fall to earth as…
A Story of Hope
Dear all My Project on Education and Trauma Counselling in South Sudanese camps has attracted the Anglican World Head of Churches to visit the refugees…
God of the Heart
When I least expect, You find me. When I am unready, You speak in whispers, Silent, insistent. In the heat of the action Your stillness descends.…
A Sense of Sunday Service
Sitting at worship In anticipation Of the bread of life, We await the familiar Strains of a liturgy That is forever new, Drawing us to that…
Beautiful Humanness
I’ve been watching the TV series ‘Anh’s Brush with Fame’. If you haven’t seen it, it is a half hour of Anh Do, who’s a well-known…
The Evangelische Kirchentag
The Evangelische Kirchentag (Protestant Church Congress) is a biannual festival where the church descends upon a city for a weekend of learning and worship. The long…
The Problem of Dualism
Jim Bradley is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is helping lead a multi-year project called Randomness and Divine Providence. In…
Lighten Our Darkness
Lighten Our Darkness Oh Lord We Beseech Thee Time and time again You return in memory. Images of childhood Sundays. Young Endeavour, Prayers And songs. From…