building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In my teaching and research, a certain issue about knowledge comes up frequently. ‘Perspectivity’ pervades the study of literature, history, philosophy, and even law. Concern for the ‘the dangers of a single story’, history being ‘written by the winners’, ‘epistemic privilege’, and ‘the length of... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- On Sunday our reading in Hebrews ended with this verse: And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another.Hebrews 10:24-25 Intimes like these... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- --- An adventure told by two voices --- ...by wafer I don’t mean Raffaelo or stracciatella, though zuppa inglese would meet the case well, as I did get a bit in the soup, as we used to say in my English childhood 86 years’ ago.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- I travel a lot – both for work and for pleasure. When travelling, I often stay with friends or colleagues. Depending on the situation, I feel more or less at home. Maybe you can relate. You arrive in the flat and are at first a... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Last Sunday Tini spoke to us about Bartimaeus, a blind man who, unable to work for a living, was forced to beg on the outskirts of the town of Jericho. Being afflicted by such an illness or disability was viewed at that time as a... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- What a lovely surprise, opening the daily Richard Rohr (Oct. 10, 2021) meditations and finding Praise the Lord from the earth,Sea monsters and all deeps;Fire and hail, snow and clouds;Stormy wind, fulfilling God’s word;Mountains and all hills;Fruit trees and all cedars;Beasts and all cattle;Creeping things... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Modern technology has greatly aided the ability of the meteorological forecasters to detect and report the movement of hurricane force winds throughout the world. However there are still times when one is caught by surprise, as was the case here in Freiburg/Black Forest a few... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.Psalm 23:5 The elderly gentleman who walked to me during coffee after service said, "The greatest lesson I learnt during the Pandemic was the futility of enmity and hostility. I have had a very... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- When I was a teenager, just before I went to university, I went with a friend to “Soul Survivor”. This “Soul Survivor” event was organised by a large church in Watford/North London. They also had a record label that published artists such as Tim Hughes... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- There once was a village in staunchly catholic and equally staunchly conservative rural Bavaria where every election netted the same solid absolute majorities for the ruling Christian Social Union party, the CSU. And so things went on for decades. However, much to the chagrin of... Continue Reading →
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