Tag: Sharing

• Food for Thought

  It troubles me that some people have no interest in reading the Gospels because they can’t take seriously some of the things they read there. An example is the “feeding of the five thousand” from five loaves and two fish. As it happens, this is an instance of occasional patriarchal prejudice. According to Matthew 14:21,…

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  5th Feb 2023

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Feeding of 5000, Good Samaritan, Gospels, Jesus, Love, Miracles, New Testament, Parables, Patriarchy, Sharing

• The Gospels (10) ‘Loaves and Fish, and Love’

  We’ve reached the 4th ‘sign’ in John’s Gospel, and should recall that his primary concern isn’t simply to record historical events, but to tell stories illustrating his beliefs about Jesus. Jesus was also a story teller, and used humour and exaggeration to heighten their impact. There’s the man with a plank of wood in his…

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  8th Oct 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Gospels, Hyperbole, Jesus, Love, Miracles, Sharing, Signs, Stories

• Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?

  The question, in this post’s heading, is the title of a book by John Powell S.J. who, in the 1960/70s, wrote a series of movingly insightful and constructively practical studies in interpersonal relationships. What does this have to do with Yeats’s poem? Read on ….. When W.B. Yeats writes about “the heavens’ embroidered cloths“, he…

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  3rd Feb 2021

  Literature, Poetry

  Interpersonal, John Powell, Love, Sharing, Unconditional, Yeats

• Loaves and Fish

  There’s a story in the New Testament about 5,000 people being fed with 5 loaves and 3 fish, and it appears in all four of the Gospels. As it happens, it was reckoned by two of these Gospels to be such a good story, that they each staged a re-run with some tweaks – 4,000…

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  6th Jan 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, New Testament, Religion, Uncategorized

  Contagious, Gospels, Kindness, Parables, Sharing, Thoughtfulness