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August 14th, 2010 No Comments

We’re opening tomorrow’s church gathering with this image from my new favourite cartoonist, xkcd.  Thanks, Matt, for the find.

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Trinity Sunday Art

June 4th, 2010 No Comments

The mysterious maths of God, that God is Three and God is One, is what we celebrate and ruminate on each year on Trinity Sunday, the week after Pentecost.
Knowing that our Creator God made us in the image of the Three-in-One, on Trinity Sunday this year we asked God to speak to us through human [...]

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Easter Sunday: ‘Hope is Regaining its Health’

April 4th, 2010 No Comments

We focused on two images today at our Easter Feast: an open, empty coffin, and this photo from photojournalism site The Big Picture.  It comes from a spread of images of Easter around the world.

This is the caption:
Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Police Chief Victor Amato holds a pet rabbit [...]

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Service of the Shadows

April 1st, 2010 No Comments

Tonight we extinguished seven candles, one by one, as we read through Matthew’s account of what happened 2000 years ago.  You could do the same at home, perhaps on Friday or Saturday evenings, so here are the readings, the shadows, and the artwork we reflected on tonight.
Matthew 26:36-46: The Shadow of Agony. The first candle is extinguished.

Praying [...]

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Shades of Advent

November 25th, 2009 No Comments

Can’t remember what colour to wear each week at West? Me neither, so I wrote it down…

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