Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 27

How Reconciliation Begins

As Jesus invites us into his community of reconciliation, he offers a wide welcome to one and all, calling us to offer the same welcome that we received.

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There’s More Healing to Be Done

Jesus stops, disrupting the flow of blood from the one whose hemorrhages had not ceased to flow for 12 long years. Twelve years of suffering healed in an instant. And yet, there’s more healing to be done.

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Dry Bones, the Spirit and Resurrection

There can be no resurrection without a new creation.

There can be no new creation without bodies.

And there can be no bodies without soil.

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Bikes, Jesus and the Legal System

It was a week and a half ago that I was (nearly) bike-jacked. And every time I talk about this, someone inevitably asks: "Is that a thing?"

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Repenting of Heaven

Reflections on J. Richard Middleton’s A New Heaven and a New Earth (Brazos, 2014)

Presented at the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association, May 31 in Ottawa

“This changes everything.”

That is how Richard Middleton closed his talk at the 2015 Jubilee Conference in Pittsburgh.

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The Spirit, ‘Spontaneity’ and Justice

The question got my back up.

It set off a passionate response disproportionate to the question itself.

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Iggy’s Gift

It was one of his last works of art.

It was a gift to us and it captured it all.

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Being Church

What if it's up to more than our marketing campaigns, facebook ad buys, and edgy new ways of being church? What if it's been up to the Spirit all along?

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The Centurion’s Tale

And if he was God’s son, the King of the Jews,

then what was he doing on that cross?

But it is on the cross that I saw who he was.

It is on the cross that this king is enthroned.

And that doesn’t make any sense at all.

Or does it?

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Maundy Thursday: Betrayal and Denial

The Last Supper,

this revolutionary re-interpretation of the Passover,

this Eucharist,

has always been framed by betrayal and denial.

And it still is.

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