Luke | Want to encounter God? Get lost!

If we want to encounter God, then we can’t limit ourselves to church or creed or doctrine or any sense of complacency. God’s off seeking the lost: and this tells me that we are found by God precisely when we ourselves are lost. In other words, God finds us in our doubt and confusion; when we’re wandering the wilderness of dementia; when we’re in the depths of depression; when we’re bewildered and vulnerable and afraid. God finds us when we’re hidden in darkness and shadow and it seems that the world has abandoned us. God finds us in our questions, and when we are seeking, and when we are straying. God finds us not in the confidence of certainty, but in grey areas, in liminal spaces ...

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Deuteronomy | In the face of climate catastrophe, choose life

This week, as cataclysmic floods pour across Pakistan, destroying farms, roads, towns and infrastructure and displacing over 30 million people; as unprecedented heatwaves and wildfires continue to threaten much of Europe; as long-term drought impacts water security for millions of people in the southwest United States; as we brace ourselves for the likelihood of another La Niña cycle and further devastating floods; as we learn that the catastrophic bushfires along the Great Dividing Range burned six metres deep in places, rendering regrowth impossible, the most famous words of Moses’ most famous sermon should ring loud and clear ... Read here or listen here.