Loss, Lament & Hope
Ian B. Here’s the (approximate!) text of my twin short sermons at The Good Shepherd, Lee on 30 June 2024. Or you can listen here to the Lament and the Hope. Lamentations…
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A Christmas Carol
A festive tale of trauma & attachment, the reason for the season, future hope, and wilful ignorance. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens My Goodreads rating:…
Lament, Trauma, and Hope – it’s complicated.
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve looked at the biblical book of Lamentations, and seen that the poet finds reason for hope in the midst of the trauma of…
Lament, Trauma, and Hope – the source of our Hope
Last week we started to read Lamentations as a biblical example of a response to traumatic situations. We saw how, in the midst of crisis and loss, the poet could…
Lament, Trauma, and Hope – who do we turn to?
What do we do when confronted by tragedy and disaster? Just in the last short while we’ve seen reports of extraordinary flooding in Libya and devastating earthquake in Morocco as…