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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


The Gap We’ve Learned to Live With
Throughout his earthly ministry, Jesus did not simply describe the Kingdom of God—he enacted it. He preached, “The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the good news,” and then he lived it: healing the sick, forgiving sin, welcoming the overlooked, confronting what dehumanises, and laying down his life in self-giving love. This Kingdom—the reign of God—is not removed from the real world. It presses into it. It speaks into how we order our common life—socially, politi
Jon Swales
2 days ago5 min read


The Name That Wouldn’t Stay Dead / Ex. 34
He didn’t lose it all at once. Not rebellion, not even doubt in its louder forms— more like erosion, slow, intelligent, socially approved. A summer once: mud on his trainers, arms raised in a field, a voice from a stage saying God was near. Soul Survivor. He meant it then, or at least he didn’t stand outside it taking notes. University taught him how to stand outside things— how to name belief as construction, trace its scaffolding, keep a straight face while dismantling it.
Jon Swales
2 days ago3 min read


Morning Prayer: Retrospect (Exodus 33)
I asked for Your face, for fire, for something certain enough to hold without shaking. Instead: the valley. Long road. Bad weather. Nights that would not speak. Footprints in the dust I could not tell were Yours or mine. I thought glory would split the mountain, light too fierce to survive. Instead it came small— legs that kept moving, tea made by someone who stayed, morning arriving again without asking permission. You hid me in the cleft of things: rock, grief, the narrow p
Jon Swales
2 days ago1 min read
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