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Jon Swales
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Climate Justice: Following Jesus in a World of Climate Breakdown (Teaching Videos)
The science is clear. We are living in a warming world due to fossil fuel emissions. The world’s most vulnerable are already suffering...
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Jon Swales
22 minutes ago3 min read
Enacting the Kingdom in World of Collapse
The incarnation—the advent and arrival of the God-Man, Jesus—unfolded in a time of escalating turmoil, as the Jewish nation hurtled...
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Jon Swales
2 days ago3 min read
Climate Breakdown & Cruciform Adaptation: A New Video Teaching Series
'Climate Breakdown and Cruciform Adaptation' is a hard-hitting, prophetic follow-on course to 'Climate Justice: Following Jesus in a World
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Jon Swales
Dec 28, 20244 min read
The Ark
We live in strange and perilous times. The boat of Western civilisation has been cast adrift, tossed on turbulent seas churned by...
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Jon Swales
Dec 27, 20243 min read
Cruciform Resistance
We are living in the midst of a profound storm, one that is shaking the very foundations of our civilisation. The crises we...
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Jon Swales
Dec 22, 20244 min read
Advent Four: A Meditation and Prayer
Advent is a season of holy tension. It draws us to look back—to the miracle of the incarnation, when God took on flesh and entered the...
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Jon Swales
Dec 21, 20243 min read
A Voice from the Streets of Leeds: Where’s the Baby in All This?
I’m sat here in a doorway on one of Leeds’ busy streets. People rush past, their hands full of shopping bags, their faces lit by the glow...
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Jon Swales
Dec 17, 20241 min read
The gods come to die
As it’s Advent, this poem/reflection might seem out of place. However, I was recently listening to a podcast about the Aztecs that...
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Jon Swales
Dec 15, 20245 min read
The Ancient Story
The Bible presents us with an epic love-shaped narrative, a story of salvation, a history of hope, and a metanarrative of mercy, which...
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Jon Swales
Dec 15, 202435 min read
The Crucified Community: Seven Meditations on the Cross
The urban street communities, the drinkers & drifters, the beggars & broken, the addicts & abused, are those who have and continue to be...
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Jon Swales
Dec 14, 20245 min read
Advent Three: A Meditation and Prayer for a World in Crisis
As we find ourselves within the sacred season of Advent, we are drawn into a holy space—a space of quiet reflection, deep longing, and...
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Jon Swales
Dec 14, 20242 min read
Mary’s Monologue
Mary’s Monologue When the angel came to me, I didn’t know what to say. “Greetings, favoured one,” he said. Favoured? Me? I was just a...
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Jon Swales
Dec 14, 20242 min read
The Shepherd’s Monologue
It was just another night. I was out in the hills, doing what I always do—watching the sheep. The air was cold, the wind sharp. The...
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Jon Swales
Dec 14, 20242 min read
Wise Man Monologue
The Wise Man’s Monologue I have spent my life searching. The stars have always fascinated me—their patterns, their meaning. I have...
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Jon Swales
Dec 7, 20241 min read
To live is to awaken: A Poem
The world is not what we think it is. We have been told a lie: that it is mere physicality, A random assembly of atoms, A cosmos...
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Jon Swales
Dec 6, 20244 min read
Advent Two: A Meditation and Reflection
Advent is a time of waiting—of living in the in-between. It’s that sacred tension between what is and what we long for, between the...
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Jon Swales
Dec 2, 20243 min read
A Meditation on Love
A Meditation on Love Love. Four letters seeking to name that which transcends words. Love, the wellspring of joy, the anchor of meaning,...
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Jon Swales
Nov 30, 20243 min read
Advent One: A Reflection for a World in Crisis
Advent is a season that speaks to the heart of our broken world. It is a time of holy tension, where lament and hope intertwine. The...
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Jon Swales
Nov 25, 20242 min read
Climate Breakdown & the Banality of Evil
A great evil is sweeping across the land. I know this sounds apocalyptic, even excessive, but how else can we describe a system that...
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Jon Swales
Nov 24, 20243 min read
Addiction and the Church
Physical health, mental well-being, relationships, finances, safety, identity—these are just a few of the things profoundly impacted by...
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