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What heals history?

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

We enter this new year, and this new season after Christmas, with some trepidation, don’t we? We are haunted by the shadows of the past, concerned for the present, warned by the violence that greeted the new year in New Orleans and Nevada and far beyond; our hopes and fears for the future year clash and mingle in the air like smoke. 
And yet this is the Feast-day, the celebration of the Epiphany, the manifestation of God’s incarnation to the nations, to us. The bright promise that God is with us, even us. Continue reading →

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When worlds collide

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

Today, while our church celebrates and ruminates on the revelation of Christ to the nations – the arrival of the magi at the manger and their joyful homage to the child they recognized as the saviour of the world – the news cycle is full of analysis, unresolved shock, and grief over what happened and what so nearly happened to our nation a year ago today. Continue reading →

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Love, knowledge, authority, and unclean spirits

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

The unclean spirits knew Jesus, and they named him. Jesus knew the man, and he loved him. Continue reading →

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