This blog began as a way of sharing much of what I think, feel and believe about many things.
I've kept it going because it combines the discipline of writing with the fun of sharing.
It's a forum for theological reflection on the stuff that happens, and also a place for exploring with others the fruit of reading and thinking.
Now and again, a blog allows not only wider conversations, but deeper ones – the old fashioned phrase "the human predicament" is only old fashioned in terminology, not in reality. As human beings we are indeed in a bit of a predicament – God help us!
And in addition to all that, this blog is for me some substitute for that part of me that always leans towards opening conversations with others around what it means in practice to follow faithfully after Jesus today.
That's all asking a lot, but there it is.
Sometime on Christmas Day the electronic counter will indicate that the 100,000th visitor clicked in. I hope the importance of that isn't only an ego thing – but an indicator that people find stuff here that is worth the bother of looking in the first place.
Anyway.
In a world where even peace prizes no longer seem to make a lot of sense
where post Copenhagen climate change raises major issues of justice to future generations
where religious ideological conflict is replacing the old cold war dichotomy
and where the economic and political self-interest of the rich create dangerous pressures against the poorer half of the world;
in a world like that, our world,
may we know the dawning reality of the Love that moves the earth and the stars,
may we gaze again on the central mystery of the Word become flesh whose glory we behold,
and may we live in obedience to Jesus Christ,
the One whose mission of peacemaking and reconciling love
defines the Christian God,
and sets the trajectories for our own life mission within and beyond the Church.
And in the light of that – a joyous Christmas to you all.
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