Peace seems to be something everyone is in favour of, as long as the other party makes whatever changes need to be made. At the moment, the world is not a very peaceful place. There are more armed conflicts in more places than any of us can keep up with. Political and civil discourse is…
This Sunday’s sermon title is one of those that doesn’t work particularly in print. The phrase (or whatever it should be called when I don’t want to repeat the word “title” again) Peace? Really? could be incredulously hopeful, which is not what I was aiming for. The intonation I was envisaging (en-hearing?) was almost derisive…
The second Sunday of Advent is the Sunday of Peace . . . so where did the “frightened” bit come from? I know the usual opposite of “peace” is “war” or “conflict” but I think those are too limiting. Yes, they are opposites of peace but so is fear. I’m not trying to steal the…