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Childish ways

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Did you ever get the saliva and handkerchief treatment?

You know, you are just about to go somewhere and your mother says, ‘You can’t go looking like that’,  and she licks a corner of a hankie and starts dabbing at your face.

You looked fine when you looked in the mirror, but judging by the amount of rubbing the face now requires you must have looked like a commando about to go into combat, or a bowler on a sunny day at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Of course, that was …

If I had the chance to do it all again, would I?

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A friend finds Sam Beckett endlessly humorous; the bleakly depressing characters become comic in his description of them;  Beckett’s plots, a shout of protest against the futility of life.  A stage performance of First Love transforms the lines on the page into a source of laughter, yet the laughter doesn’t change the reality of the character’s life, simply the way in which the reality is seen.

Perhaps laughing at reality is the best response; making it clear that whatever happens, you won in the end; perhaps it is a response …

Maundy Thursday 2010: Fifth Holy Week Sermon

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Re-reading the story: Luke 23:1-56

Our re-reading of the story through each evening of Holy Week has attempted to see episodes through different lenses: on Sunday we looked at the entry into Jerusalem in the context of Scriptural prophecies; on Monday we looked at the debate with the opponents as a piece of political campaigning; on Tuesday our emphasis was on theological ideas as Jesus talked about the day of judgment and the end of time; last night we looked at the Last Supper as worship, as the foundation of …

Wednesday in Holy Week 2010: Fourth Holy Week Sermon

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Re-reading the Story: Luke 22:7-71

Our re-reading of Saint Luke’s account of Holy Week began with the triumphal entry into Jerusalem and this evening reaches the Last Supper and the arrest of Jesus. On Sunday we looked at Jesus standing in a Scriptural tradition as he rode into the city; this was a piece of prophetic action in continuity with the prophets of the Old Testament. On Monday, the focus was upon the political conflicts with the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Last night, the emphasis was much more theological, reflection …

Unreasonable times

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Struggling through an Open University course some twenty years ago, Freud became a problem.  The presence of particular items in dreams were indicative of certain thoughts or desires, but equally the absence of the same things was equally significant; either way one was attributed with a set of desires and to deny any such thought was an example of one repressing one’s true inclinations.  The argument seemed entirely circular; something was so because it was said to be so, and any attempts at denial only served as an example of …

Forgotten memories

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A friend lent me a book about security force collusion with terrorists during the Troubles; the writer, a journalist who had made major documentaries for British television and had written for an Irish newspaper had published the book privately.  No publisher would contemplate its publication for fear of litigation.

How many stories just disappear, because they are suppressed by those in charge, or because of fear of being sued, or maybe because the writer loses confidence in the veracity of the story?

There is a belief that the suppression of …

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