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Dear Friends, Welcome. ​This space exists for one reason: ​love — ​the love of God poured out in Jesus Christ, ​the love we are called to extend ​to one another, ​and to the world. ​There are many voices clamouring for our attention. Here, you will find the rhythm of one heart seeking to follow the way of Love. My ministry does not happen behind heavy church doors or within rigid institutional walls. It happens in the quiet, ordinary spaces of life where we learn to walk together at an unhurried pace. This is a faith rooted not in tradition for its own sake, but in the living, active, self-giving love at the heart of the Gospel. ​Three truths have become my anchors: ​The Living Word Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. Apart from Him, the true God cannot be fully known. In Jesus, we see the face of a God who is Love, and whose Gospel is the path of Peace. ​The Gift of Grace I believe salvation is found by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Grace is a t...
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Blaming God

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Not the God of love — Ares, Mammon, apples to atom bombs, and you. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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Fellows in a Ship

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Fellowship in a ship, nets hauled together at dawn — one catch, shared by all. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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Letter to the Governor of Barbados in 1671 by George Fox

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“We own and believe in God, the only wise, omnipotent and everlasting God, the Creator of all things in heaven and on earth, and the Preserver of all that he hath made; who is God over all, blessed for ever. And we own and believe in Jesus Christ his beloved and only begotten Son, in whom he is well pleased. And we own and believe that he was made a sacrifice for sin, who knew no sin, and that he was buried and rose again on the third day by the power of his Father, for our justification, and that he ascended up into heaven. This Jesus who was the foundation of the holy prophets and apostles, is our foundation and we believe there is no other foundation to be laid but that which is laid, even Christ Jesus who tasted death for every man, shed his blood for all men, is the propitiation for our sins, and not ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. We believe that he alone is our Redeemer and Saviour. Christ Jesus the Alpha and Omega, the First and Last. He is (as...
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In Defence of the White Poppy

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Cowardly?  Not at all. Every November, the same accusation resurfaces: that wearing a white poppy is disrespectful, unpatriotic, even cowardly. The history says otherwise. Who wears it? Many veterans wear the white poppy, including people who lived through the horrors of the front line and came to see war as futile. Conscientious objectors who refused to fight often showed enormous courage. Some served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit or the medical corps, rescuing the wounded under shellfire without carrying a weapon. Others took on bomb disposal and stretcher-bearing, among the most dangerous work of the wars. The white poppy isn't about dishonouring soldiers. It stands for remembering all victims of war, military and civilian, and for a commitment to peace. Where did it come from? The white poppy didn't start as a rival to the red one. It was first produced in 1933 by the Women's Co-operative Guild, whose members were largely women who had lost husbands, sons, brothe...
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Cowards?

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For Remembrance and White Poppy Day: He stands tied to a post, fired upon by comrades. He doesn't die. The commander's revolver finishes it "The Coward" The stretcher bearer is under fire. Hands raw from saving lives. He wouldn't arm himself. "The Coward" The stretcher bearer is under fire. Hands raw from saving lives. He wouldn't arm himself. "The Coward" White poppies on a veteran's shirt. Spat at. How dare he pursue peace. "The Coward" A woman hides her child. She doesn't want to send him to the front. How dare she keep him from glory. "The Coward" "Coward" echoes across the scorched earth. Jesus Face as flint to Jerusalem Not fighting They'd call Him a coward too If these are the cowards, I'll join them. They are the bravest thing here. - DTH -
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Hands Open, Not Clenched

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The same human hands that held a newborn and held a grandmother's hands in a pew are the hands that dragged a boy from a doorway and rolled a body into a trench.  A hand tears a jaw apart like wet bread, another hand dead yet still warm, still wearing a wedding ring.  But other hands press a stranger's chest and refuse to give up, pass water across a fence, lay a loaded rifle in the mud, knock on heavens door.  We can build a school with them. We can break a child with them. The hands of God spread the sky like a cloth, and the hands of Christ were pierced and nailed flat while the world did what the world does — and the world is still being crucified, still bleeding in a hundred villages.  So we do not answer the nails with nails.  We answer them the way He did: hands open, not clenched, forgiving the ones who drive them in. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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Suffer the Children

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Babies in church are not a distraction. Suffer the children to come. Only consumer churches need worry — the babies and the ASN might pull your eyes from the product, the show. But a church that looks like the early church is for the big and the small, and gathers in strange places: the wilderness, ordinary houses, random temples, altars to an unknown God where ecumenical teaching moments happen. Because here He is. Whatsoever you do to the least of these, you do to Him. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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