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Sarum College has a great opportunity for a Marketing Officer to help deliver the College’s marketing plan to develop business across all areas of Sarum College, including its learning programmes and commercial hospitality services. To find out more about the … Read moreBook of the Month: December 2019
In the Bleak Midwinter by Rachel Mann If asked to name a poem by Christina Rossetti, many of us would manage ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’; a favourite carol. If pressed, we might also manage ‘Goblin Market’. In fact, Christina Rossetti … Read moreA Resolution You Can Stick To
It may seem a little pre-emptive to talk about New Year’s Resolutions when it’s not even Advent yet. But resolutions are notoriously unsuccessful for good and well-known reasons that are best dealt with before maelstrom of activity and emotion of … Read moreMore News »
Lectionary Blog
Lectionary Reading Blog for 23 April: 2nd Sunday of Easter or Easter Eve
This is a violent passage. Is it suitable for Easter? Is it suitable for baptism? Traditionally Easter Eve is a time for baptism. We travel with Jesus through the waters of death to new life. We travel with the Israelites … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 16 April: Easter Day
Jeremiah tends to be a prophet of judgement and punishment; a prophet of lament. In this passage, while still in exile, we hear the voice of hope. Here is the Easter gospel as sung by Jeremiah hundreds of years before … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 9 April: Palm Sunday
This passage is very carefully selected, if you stray even one verse this way or that, even to 9b, you will find blistering judgement. Although we clearly associate this passage with Jesus’ passion (especially Matthew 26: 67) there is no … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 2 April: 5th Sunday of Lent
The lament of Israel in v.11 seems to offer the image of this amazing vision. “Our bones have dried up” they complain, “our hope is lost” and “we are cut off”. I appreciate the sense of being cut off as … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 26 March: Mothering Sunday
Two mothers meet around an ark (tebah – this word is only used here and in the story of Noah in Genesis 6-8). The water that should have destroyed the baby has saved him. Two mothers who are both instrumental … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 19 March: 3rd Sunday of Lent
I have always thought the Israelites in the desert to be a grumpy and grumbling lot – murmuring. Complaining about everything. Reading Exodus 17 today I wondered what it would be like to be with my husband and three children … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 12 March: 2nd Sunday of Lent
The call of Abram in Genesis 12:1 is not really the beginning of the story. The story really starts with his father, Terah (Gen. 11: 27). Terah gets his children later in life: he is seventy unlike his father and … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 5 March: 1st Sunday of Lent
Read in combination with Matthew 4 and Romans 5 and a long Christian tradition it is rather easy to read Genesis 2 and 3 as a story of ‘sin’ and ‘punishment’; a story of ‘temptation’, ‘disobedience’ and ‘the fall’. But … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 26th February: Sunday Before Lent
Six days is a long time to wait. I wonder whether the six days in Matt. 17:1 are to remind us of the six days of nothingness that Moses had to wait through. The seventh day is the day that … Read more
Lectionary Reading Blog for 19th February: 2nd Sunday Before Lent
This text is so rich it is hard to know whether to go for the ‘dark deep’ (v.2) the ‘dragons’ (v.21) or ‘dominion’ (v.28) or the ultimate relationship between all those. But I think that the real sting is in … Read more