Category Archives: current events

Nazareth, Norway, Nathaneal

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

“What do you know of me?” Nathaneal demanded.
“I know enough,” answered Jesus.
“Oh, Christ,” Nathaneal swore.
“You have no idea,” replied the Christ. Continue reading →

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Gaudete

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

the Lord has anointed me to bind up the broken-hearted, to comfort all who mourn Continue reading →

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In all circumstances

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

“Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16 Continue reading →

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God’s time

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

God’s relationship with our time-bound world is much more poetic and less literal than a counting down of days between the first and the second creation to come. Continue reading →

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Advent

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Dangerous moments in a darkened womb; the unfamiliar arrhythmia of travel, the fresh, tart taste of fear filtered through amniotic fluid, lullaby of strange sirens steering the weary; sunk in your swaying sea, time contracts creation to a singularity still … Continue reading →

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Telling

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

We are not Survivor. They took our bodies down, stripped and swaddled, spiced and laid, restless. We are not Victim, though they nail us to whatever piece of wood they find to hand. We are Resurrection. Bury us deep as … Continue reading →

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Spoken and unspoken

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

I tell you this one, so that we can laugh, and turn our backs for another century or so on the graveyards full of other, rotten bodies. Continue reading →

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This world

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

A word of scripture whispered in my ear and would not let me go. Continue reading →

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Rendering repentance

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

we have been charged first to love God, with all of our heart, and mind, and strength, and soul; and then to love our neighbours as ourselves. These are the faces that should open us up, unlock our compassion and our humanity. Continue reading →

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The myth of redemptive violence

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

We can move mountains, if our thoughts and prayers for the latest victims of violence are backed by faith in the one who loves us, rather than the myths sold us by our gun suppliers; if we remember who is was that sowed the Garden in the first place, and placed us in it. Continue reading →

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