Category Archives: story

Kamehameha and Emma

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

These two monarchs are commemorated with the same gospel as we read on Christ the King Sunday, because they modelled their reign on public service, serving as shepherds of their people, and feeding the flocks entrusted to them with justice and mercy, except, it seems, for the occasional accident. Continue reading →

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The Shepherd King

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

The judgement that Jesus describes is the judgement that the prophet Ezekiel promises to the sheep of God’s hand. “I will feed them with justice,” says the Lord.
And what is the justice with which they are fed? 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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Reading the road signs

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Emerging from the mist of the mountain road, a yellow caution sign:

Warning: tree on the way Continue reading →

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Friday

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

In God’s gospel truth, the day comes when nothing is to be done, except to shiver below the lowering sky, crouch within the trembling earth, wind down the body into the new-hewn tomb * * * The birds are the … Continue reading →

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Guns kill people (updated)

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

At the risk of repeating myself, and with all respect to the dead and the injured and those who mourn them: Guns kill people. It is their raison d’etre. That being the case, we must control them. Continue reading →

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Book Review: For Sabbath’s Sake

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

“Should this be your first go of sabbath, don’t write that you want to observe a strict twenty-four hours in a mountain cave while doing a headstand atop hot coals.”
Good advice abounds in this new book by J. Dana Trent, as does good humour. Continue reading →

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Every knee

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is crucial and critical to find this mind that is in Christ Jesus, and follow him in all of his glorious humility. There is nothing wrong with kneeling before him in silence. Continue reading →

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