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Reading the signs of the times – that is a challenge that seems more important, and perhaps more difficult now than ever before in our lifetimes.
Wounds and Healing
The theme of our Easter issue is Wounds and Healing. We have some wonderful articles on the theme. From the Editorial: The need to describe reality as something entire, undivided and without injury has been present as long as human beings have been expressing themselves. Nowadays, we experience it in part through its lack. We […]
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The new edition of the UK / Ireland newsletter is available here: Perspectives Newsletter No. 57 St John’s 2019
What is Resurrection?
Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nail-marks, and put my hand into his side – I’m not going to believe! (John 20:25) What would the joy of Easter Sunday be without the sufferings of Good Friday? The resurrection does not erase the death of Jesus, […]
Creation and New Creation
Everything came into being through him. (John 1:3) Our existence rests on the world which has already become. When we fall asleep, we take it for granted that our existence will continue the next morning; that we will experience ground under our feet, that the sun will rise again. People affected by earthquakes report that, […]
Living with the Gospel: Where does the miracle occur?
…but you’ve kept the good wine until now! (Jn 2,10) After the wedding feast, when the servants cleaned up, did was wine left over that had to be poured away? Is such an idea too literal? But does a purely symbolic interpretation take the gospel seriously enough? Behind these questions is the separation into an […]
Editorial – December 2018
Saint Augustine used the analogy of a candle for the Trinity: the solid wax is the Father; it gives the candle its solidity and is also the fuel for the flame. The Son is the flame itself, bringing the solid substance into movement and transformation. The Spirit is the radiance of the light. In recent […]
