Tag Archives: lament
Sermon: There is nothing we cannot say to God
Too often throughout history the church has been on the side of the colonisers, not the colonised; the slave owners, not the slaves; the rich, not the poor; adults, not children; men, not women; straight people, not LGBTIQ+ people; paedophiles, not the victims of clerical sexual abuse; and so on and so forth. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Babylonian Exile, C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fall of Jerusalem, Hate, lament, Lamentations 1:1-6, Psalm 137, Walter Brueggemann
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Sermon: Blaming God
We may have ultimate faith that God is love, that God responds to our suffering with compassion, but in those times when we cannot feel God’s love, the heritage of our faith tells us that kicking and screaming and blaming God for God’s absence is also a faithful response. Continue reading
Prayer of Confession and Lament in Response to the Massacre in Orlando
… without every single one of us your rainbow shines less bright. Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged lament, Prayer of Confession, sexuality, uniting church in australia, Year of Luke
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