Congregations

The grave of hope The English language contains a paradox, where to grieve and to have a grievance come from the same word, but have very different meanings. To have a grievance means to be defined by our loss, and to be in search of redress. To grieve means waiting tenderly while our loss takes […]

‘Let him who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.’ (John 8). One thing that stood out during our weekend conference on the Holy Land was Ilse Wellershof-Schuur’s ability to embrace multiple viewpoints. She helped us to see that this is the only way we can imagine a future in the troubled

The valley of the shadow… The Lord – who speaks the ‘I’ within me – He is my shepherd.I shall lack nothing.He lets me rest on green pastures;He leads me to the stream of life;He restores my soul.He lets me walk on the path of truthfulnessin the all-wielding power of his ‘I’.And – though I

The Sign of Jonah When the crowds were increasing, Jesus said: ‘This generation is alienated from the spirit; it seeks for a sign of the spirit, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of

Transfiguration: an imagination .. and from the altar there flowed golden ribbons that wound round about us and connected us: the stranger in his dull overcoat; the old lady counting her money for the collection; my best friend with whom I was quarrelling. All were joined in a great web of gold. And gradually I