Rector’s Blog

Coronavirus and Lent

“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;                    I will redeem them from death.             Where, O death, are your plagues?                      Where, O grave, is your destruction?                                                                         The Book of Hosea 13.14 NIV   The prophet Hosea prophesied during a rather dark and sad time in Israel’s history.  He was writing during the period…

“Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

February 13th, 2020 “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5.14  One of my favourite contemporary religious writers is a fella by the name of Tex Sample. (And yes, I understand he is actually from, you guessed it…) In 2006, he published a fascinating work entitled “Blue Collar Resistance and the Politics of Jesus: Doing Ministry…