We pondered this text in Church today, as many others did. One of the preacher's thoughts was on the Cross. Our images of Christ in this particular Church of three churches in the parish do not include the image of Jesus on the Cross, perhaps affecting visualisation and meditation on the true possibility of rebirth. However, as something to compare to, we have another parish church in the three, the Church of the Resurrection: This has a massive Leonard French window/ wall, of Jesus on the Cross, lifted, with images of the Ash Wednesday bushfires below,
Very good contextualised theology here that speaks volumes about the climate challenge and our current multiple fires across our state, yet again!
From above makes so much more sense. Thank you for this enlightening post. I have always been curious about Nicodemus. Not what we see or read but beneath that.
Thanks! Always loved Nicodemus for his versatility and timidity. STILL, may I choose to be born from within? After all I have little control over that—just glad to wake up after a good sleep, which in these my aging days is a gift worthy of gospel HOPE, no? Getting up, however, is a heave-ho hoist! Thank you for your open-mindedness, once again. Lyn
We pondered this text in Church today, as many others did. One of the preacher's thoughts was on the Cross. Our images of Christ in this particular Church of three churches in the parish do not include the image of Jesus on the Cross, perhaps affecting visualisation and meditation on the true possibility of rebirth. However, as something to compare to, we have another parish church in the three, the Church of the Resurrection: This has a massive Leonard French window/ wall, of Jesus on the Cross, lifted, with images of the Ash Wednesday bushfires below,
Very good contextualised theology here that speaks volumes about the climate challenge and our current multiple fires across our state, yet again!
From above makes so much more sense. Thank you for this enlightening post. I have always been curious about Nicodemus. Not what we see or read but beneath that.
Thanks! Always loved Nicodemus for his versatility and timidity. STILL, may I choose to be born from within? After all I have little control over that—just glad to wake up after a good sleep, which in these my aging days is a gift worthy of gospel HOPE, no? Getting up, however, is a heave-ho hoist! Thank you for your open-mindedness, once again. Lyn