Will there be a flu pandemic?

29/04/09 | Posted by Poppy | Permalink | (2) Comments

So will swine flu lead to a pandemic with millions dead just like the 1918 Spanish flu or will it be just another health scare? No one seems to know. I have to admit I'm worried as I remember watching 'Survivors' on the TV when I was younger where a group of people stuggle in a post pandemic world. It is worrying. Is this the end of civilisation as we know it? More ...

The Hidden Gospels - Part 2: Gospel of Mary

20/04/09 | Posted by MattPage | Permalink | (6) Comments

If a gospel is all about good news then it appears that the Gospel of Mary is barely a gospel at all. There’s no sacrificial death, in fact, there are not even any ideas on how to make the world a better place, at least, not in the parts of the book we have. More ...

Jesus – the Taurus personality

20/04/09 | Posted by Steve Hollinghurst | Permalink | (11) Comments

Traditionally the symbol of St Luke’s Gospel is a bull or ox, and here very much not the ‘bull in a china shop’ but the strong dependable but sometimes immovable creature that is the mainstay of agricultural work in many parts of the world. Those we might call the strong and silent type are in mind here, but how might they reflect Jesus character and what lessons might Jesus have for such people? More ...

What Lies Beneath?

18/04/09 | Posted by Poppy | Permalink | (2) Comments

This week I watched a programme on BBC1 about the hidden code that explains all that deep hidden meaning in the Narnia books by CS Lewis. As ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was the first book I ever bought, for 2/6 back in the early 1960s, and I was a member of the CS Lewis society back in the 1980s, I was ready to scoff, but there may be something in it. More ...

Jesus – the Aries personality

14/04/09 | Posted by Steve Hollinghurst | Permalink | (25) Comments

A couple of years ago an Easter poster portrayed Jesus, copying the classic image, as Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara with the tag line ‘meek and mild - as if’ (see it here). It caused some controversy. Yet the one who told people to ‘turn the other cheek’ was not a push over, he had the traits of the Aries personality often associated with the ‘warrior-leader’. He also points towards how such people can ensure those traits do not descend into mindless violence. More ...

He’s Alive!

12/04/09 | Posted by ellen | Permalink | (1) Comments

The first person to meet Jesus that first Easter morning was Mary…the tomb, which had been guarded by Roman soldiers, was empty and she was heartbroken – who had taken Jesus? Where was he? But then there he was. She had thought he was the gardener but then she realised it really was Jesus, standing there in front of her. Jesus is Alive! More ...

Saturday Blues

11/04/09 | Posted by ellen | Permalink | (0) Comments

When my Dad died a few years ago the time immediately after his death was really difficult. He had been ill for only a month and much of that time was spent looking after him and my mother – making sure they were ok, cooking meals, dealing with visitors and other domestic duties. The day after he died I was left in a void. I had an almost overwhelming sense of loss. I didn’t know what to do with myself.
This is what the disciples must have felt the day after Jesus died. He was gone. Everything they had lived for had gone. What was their life going to be like now? More ...

Conversations with Jesus: As he is dying on the cross Jesus speaks to two thieves.

10/04/09 | Posted by ellen | Permalink | (1) Comments

It was a Friday. Jesus had been condemned to a shameful death. Beaten, humiliated and desperate Jesus is nailed to a cross – on his head a crown of thorns, above him a Roman soldier had written ‘This is the King of the Jews’. To Jesus’ right is a condemned thief named Dismas, to his left a condemned thief named Gestas. All three men are dying – a slow painful public death. More ...

This is compassion

10/04/09 | Posted by Vicky | Permalink | (2) Comments

It's nearly two o'clock in the morning, and I'm struggling to keep my eyelids open. I'm awake for a reason. On this night Christians remember something that happened in the small hours just before Jesus' arrest. Before the soldiers came to get him, Jesus went out to an olive garden on the edge of the city, a garden known as Gethsemane. Knowing what was about to happen, and getting very agitated, he said to his friends, "I'm hurting to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me." More ...

Holy Week

08/04/09 | Posted by ellen | Permalink | (2) Comments

This week is holy week…the last week of lent. So, on Saturday all those things we gave up for lent can begin again. At the start of lent I asked the question – what are you giving up for lent? I also mentioned that this year rather then focusing on giving something up I had decided to start something up – walking to work. I can report that most days I have managed to keep my lent promise (a few particularly unpleasant days meant that I gave in an got the bus). So, as lent comes to an end I wonder how you have got on? More ...

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