Romans | While Rhodes burns

An homage to Targum, reading Romans 8 through an ecological lens this hottest month on record. Read here or listen here. 

Genesis | The god of betwixt and between

God meets us in liminal spaces, when all our defences are down. Read here or listen here.

Genesis | Alt*red state: A text of terror brings good news

The usual interpretation of the binding of Isaac is that God may require us to sacrifice everything, even, if asked, our own children: but a contextual awareness changes everything. 

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Romans | Practice resurrection

In the face of sin, death and injustice, we are called to walk in newness of life.  A Wendell Berry / Apostle Paul mashup. Read here or listen here.

Genesis | Abram: Our ancestor-colonizer

Leave your country, your kin, and your ancestral home, you poverty-stricken Cornishfolk, for a land which I will show you. It’s the colony of South Australia ... the story of Abram points to a more just settlement, paving the way to Voice and Treaty.

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Acts | And they were all together in one place ...

We here at Sanctuary used to gather regularly in one place. So what happened? And what comes next? Read here or listen here.

Acts | Just look around!

A woman dies, her children are young: where is God? A longed-for baby is stillborn: where is God? Tonight we remember the Ascension, when the Risen Christ in the form of Jesus left his disciples once and for all. So where is God? Well, it seems that God has left the planet, and we are left with nothing at all ... 

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