Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 15

Household Prayers of Liberation

From Paul's "household code" to household prayers of liberation

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Persis Hears Colossians

While we are all fighting against misogyny, child abuse and economic exploitation, how do we hear a text in which wives, children and slaves are all called to obedience?

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Don’t forget who you are

Remembering who we are,

remembering our story,

shaping our character.

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Because Grace

A reflection on John 2:1-11 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie, originally preached at St.

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All Things in Christ

All of creation now begins to bend back into harmony with God and the vision of a deep and everlasting and generous and fruitful peace becomes something that you can just start to catch a glimpse of.

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Life Chooses Life

A reflection on Luke 3:15-22 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie. Originally preached at St Brigids Vancouver.

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Keeping Faith

What is it that shakes your faith to its very core?

What kind of thing can render you faithless?

What could strip you of your faith?

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Prayers for a New Year

Faithful God, it is January.

Frozen, yet still the soil teems with life:

life that is, and life that is to come.

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Away from the Manger: The Refugee King

Away from the manger they ran for their lives

The crying boy Jesus, a son they must hide

A dream came to Joseph, they fled in the night

And they ran and they ran and they ran

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Advent: Hope, Land, and Wine

Hope is impossible without a deep sense of being landed.

And hope is impossible if you never get dirt

under your fingernails.

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