It is, of course, right that we should treat the victims of COVID and their friends and family with compassion. But I am increasingly concerned for those who are suffering indirectly as a result of COVID restrictions. They seem to be largely ignored and forgotten by our media.
Does Christmas matter? – 2
Over the course of my lifetime, as the numbers professing the Christian faith have declined, Christmas has for many people become a time of excess: excess of food and drink; excess of spending; excess of partying; excess of everything.
Does Christmas matter? – 1
As I write this, there seems to be in our Media a growing, strident call for Christmas to be ‘cancelled’ because of COVID. I initially laughed at that – that any government might consider it had the power or the authority to cancel one of the most important Christian festivals!
“From those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away”. You call that Justice?
Generally, I’ve not been following the Bible Lectionary when I’ve done these blog posts. That’s partly because there seem to have been more important readings and subjects to explore, but I’ve decided to do so this week, if only because the New Testament reading for last Sunday, Matthew 25:14-30, the ‘Parable of the Talents’ is, I firmly believe, almost always misunderstood
Fear, Death, COVID 19 and Justice
I wrote in my last post about our need for human relationships and the hope that the government would take full account of that, as they considered the next steps in the COVID national story. As it seems that we’re headed almost inexorably into more ‘lockdown’ (whatever you might call it), I think it’s worth considering the impact on people of the current situation.
The meaning of Life
I was recently reminded of what was said in a Christian newspaper The Tablet at the time of the death of David Cameron’s disabled son, Ivan, in 2009. The comments in the article served as a useful reminder that we can’t value people, or our relationships with them, on the normal social conventions, or based on some arbitrary post-modern values of ‘the quality of life’
Reflective Preacher 