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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...
Jon Swales
Sep 23, 20241 min read
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A Lament
How long, O Lord? How long will the blood of children cry from the dust? How long will hostages be held and celebrations be made of...
Jon Swales
3 days ago1 min read
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Dressing Like a Monk
By way of explanation if you have seen me out and about in the last few weeks. Last year, I felt a nudge before Lent to wear a cassock —...
Jon Swales
7 days ago2 min read
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Cruciform Adaptation: A Call to the Church in a Time of Unraveling
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, climate and ecological breakdown are no longer distant threats. They are here. Right now....
Jon Swales
Mar 153 min read
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Oscar Romero: A Saint for a World on Fire
In a world battered and bruised by injustice, where the cries of the oppressed so often fall on deaf ears, the witness of Oscar Romero...
Jon Swales
Mar 103 min read
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#5 The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
'For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.' At Lighthouse, we say these words together — sometimes...
Jon Swales
Mar 73 min read
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#4 The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil At Lighthouse, this line of the Lord’s Prayer carries weight. It’s prayed by those...
Jon Swales
Mar 53 min read
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#3 The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after we’ve prayed for the kingdom to come, after...
Jon Swales
Mar 53 min read
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#2The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
Give us this day our daily bread Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after cries for the kingdom to come, we move to the next line of the prayer...
Jon Swales
Mar 33 min read
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#1 The Lord’s Prayer- A Lighthouse Reflection
Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after a burst of heart-felt, honest, and holy prayer — the kind that comes when people have nothing left to...
Jon Swales
Mar 34 min read
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One Foot in Eden
One foot in Eden, where light spills soft through the branches, and the river sings a song without sorrow. Here, the air is thick with...
Jon Swales
Mar 31 min read
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The Church is not a Museum
The Church Is Not a Museum Churches are not museums of tradition or graveyards of yesteryear. They are not mausoleums filled with the...
Jon Swales
Feb 251 min read
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A Canticle for a Burning World
Blessed be the One, wild and holy, whose breath stirs the void, whose voice hums in all things, whose light flickers in the deep. Blessed...
Jon Swales
Feb 252 min read
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The Dream
Night spills across the earth like oil, thick with the hush of waiting. I slip between waking and the deep unseen, where time is...
Jon Swales
Feb 163 min read
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The Church is not a Business
Churches are not businesses. Now, this doesn’t mean there aren’t budgets to balance, resources to steward, or even that insights from...
Jon Swales
Feb 162 min read
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The Pastor's Dream: Lazarus
“We may possess and may practice a dogmatics, an ethics, and a proper worldview such as the given tradition requires but still leave...
Jon Swales
Feb 142 min read
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The Harrowing of Hell
Today, the Lighthouse team continued their book study of ‘The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross.’ After discussing...
Jon Swales
Feb 41 min read
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A Psalm for a Secular Age
Give thanks for the longing within, for the hunger that will not be silenced. Speak of the beauty that lingers still, of the mystery that...
Jon Swales
Feb 41 min read
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The River I Step In Is Not the River I Stand In
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man." —Heraclitus The River I Step In Is...
Jon Swales
Feb 41 min read
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Bats or Newts? A Lament
“Bats or great crested newts?” “Neither, because I want growth, ” - Rachel Reeves, Times Interview, Quick Fire Questions ‘Bats or Great...
Jon Swales
Jan 281 min read
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