Tag Archives: Martin Luther King Jr

What if we were to listen …?

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Do you ever wonder what happened afterwards, to Bartimaeus? Now that he was following Jesus with his eyes wide open, did the people listen to him any more kindly, or were they still telling him to be quiet, not to disturb their peace? Continue reading →

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It is too light a thing

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Rosalind C Hughes

We see our fellow godchildren as like us, or not like us, or invisible to us. But it is God’s salvation that we proclaim, and that we claim for ourselves, and God created light to shine from one end of the universe to the other.
The light of God’s salvation is for everyone. It is the light which enlightens every body, which lifts every burden, which anoints every wound with healing. Continue reading →

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Light speaks

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Rosalind C Hughes

light whispers, flushed and fevered,
smouldering out of sight to
the point of conflagration. Continue reading →

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Water, wine, and justice like an ever-flowing stream

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

On sabbatical, I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture. I can’t begin to describe briefly the impact of walking that history of inhumanity and human dignity set up in opposition to one another, the weight of those ceilings, each one a century, and the heaviness of your footsteps as you climb closer to our own day of reckoning. Continue reading →

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Waking up to a resurrection revolution

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Fifty years have passed, now, since King’s sermon at the Cathedral, and his subsequent assassination. If this death of his had been but sleep, as some of the poets say, and he were to awaken and return today, I wonder if he would be in any way disturbed by the kind of revolution whose results met Rip Van Winkle, or Thomas the apostle. Continue reading →

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Holy innocents

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Their wisdom was not wanted by the powers that be, in case it would unseat their certainty of their own anointed state. Warned in a dream, they went home another way, pursued by rumours of mothers kneeling in the ashes of … Continue reading →

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Timeless

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

One of our Lay Preachers had the pulpit this morning, which is the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. She used two of his prayers to frame a sermon which relied mostly on his words, spoken during the March on … Continue reading →

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A reflection for a community celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

Delivered at Lakeshore Christian Church, Sunday 19 January 2014 Last spring, when word got out about the women who had escaped from a cruel kidnapping, about the decade that they had spent imprisoned in an ordinary little house in an … Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 16: Jeremiah and Jesus

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

The Book of Jeremiah is a complicated document, and there are many scholarly debates about its history and its voices, its purpose and its people. What we read at its beginning, though, is a classic call story. “Here,” says God, … Continue reading →

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How do we keep the dream alive today?

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

A reflection offered at the community celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr, hosted by Lakeshore Christian Church, Euclid, Ohio One year ago today, I stood in a room downtown before a federal judge, and I took an oath, and some … Continue reading →

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