Devotion
Christmas reflections: What is it like to be truly human?
Reflections from a Nativity play Last week at my son’s school the children did a Nativity play. As I watched the infant Jesus I was reminded of Jesus’ humanity. He was fully God. Yet we must remember that at the same time he was fully human. The Son of the Almighty God became a defenceless […]
A Christmas Reflection
My wife and I recently saw the movie, What Would Jesus Buy? It’s a brilliant spoof of all that Christmas has become for millions of people trapped in the shopping frenzy that is the silly season. The film follows Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir throughout the United States as they […]
Who is God for me?
Today (at Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia on 3 November 2009) my Spiritual Director invited me to consider who God is for me. Here’s what I scribbled: At the outset, as I approach this awesome subject, I need to assert again my deep ignorance, and take the shoes of arrogance from my feet. First, God is. I […]
Charter for Compassion
November 12, 2009 Charter for Compassion promotes the golden rule Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God and winner of the 2008 TED prize, along with religious leaders from around the world has unveiled the Charter for Compassion. The Charter is a single document, endorsed by HH the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu […]
Unconditional Love
From this morning’s devotions: ‘Christ delights most in loving the worst’ (John Bunyan); ‘You are more loving to me than I myself’ (John Henry Newman). Thank you Lord that your unconditional grace means I am loved before I change, as I change, after I change, and whether I change or not’. Amen. Rowland Croucher
Uluru
Two years ago Anne and I spent a week travelling through central Australia from Alice Springs, through Kings Canyon to Uluru (Ayres Rock). Since that time I have become convinced that this great rock, almost in the centre of Australia, holds some great truth about our place in the world. It was the American poet […]
Life’s Landscapes
Last Monday Mary, a very good friend of mine from Hamilton Ontario, convinced me to canoe down the Grand River from Cambridge Ontario to Paris Ontario. We hired the canoe from ¯ ¿ ½Grand Expeditions ¯ ¿ ½ who kindly delivered us to the beginning of our journey to paddle downstream back to where Mary had parked her car. The […]
Refining Fire
Received today from a friend: Malachi 3:3: ‘He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.’ This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get […]
The Getting of Wisdom, Learning to See in the Dark
As a small child, I recall sleeping in a bedroom of someone else’s house. In the half light of early morning I peered at unfamiliar objects in that room, in an attempt to determine what they were, arriving at various interpretations, as the level of light expanded, only to have them finally turn out to […]
Ecclesiastes
A beautiful video… but are you entirely comfortable looking at it? http://www.biblesociety.ca/free_scriptures/escriptures/ecclesiastes3/ecclesiastes3.html Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
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