The science is clear. We are living in a warming world due to fossil fuel emissions. The world’s most vulnerable are already suffering...

The Shopfront, the Centre, and the Work of Truth Rev’d Jon Swales, 10 minute read. Churches, like most institutions, learn how to present themselves. There is a front-facing story — a shopfront narrative — shaped for newcomers, visitors, church networks, and social media. It speaks of welcome, healing, generosity, growth, authenticity, flourishing. Often it names something real. Often it names something hoped for. Rarely is it a lie. But it is selective. The shopfront tells

Jesus said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. —John 11:34–35 Once we knew where we were. The glass held. Light stayed put. The world obeyed the basic rules of cause and effect, of prayer and outcome. Meaning showed up when summoned. God was mostly punctual. We called this 'faith'— a life where the story made sense often enough that we trusted the gaps, where suffering felt tragic but legible. Then— a phone call that split the day i

The whole creation waits— not quietly, but leaning forward with the ache of expectation. Galaxies tilt toward the dark, spirals cupped like listening ears. Stars hold their breath between burning and blessing, knowing there is more than endless expansion and collapse. Rocks remember touch. They remember being named good before they were quarried, before they were broken for speed and profit. They bear the weight of violence, the long erosion of sorrow, and still they wait— pa