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Jon Swales
18 hours ago2 min read
Soup, Soap & Salvation
Step beyond the comforts of romanticised religion, beyond a hope too soft, too distant. Move towards the wounded, the image-bearers in...
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Jon Swales
7 days ago1 min read
Find Your Own Calcutta
You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see”- Mother Teresa Find your own Calcutta— a descent, an incarnation...
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Jon Swales
Jan 101 min read
Go Forth without Fear
Do not be afraid. Bid farewell to fear. There is no shadow so deep that love cannot reach it, no sin so vast it could exhaust the...
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Jon Swales
Jan 101 min read
Hope Leans Forward
Hope leans forward, tender, listening to the whispers of creation groaning for renewal. It does not turn its face from shadows but gazes...
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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 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
Sep 1, 20241 min read
Broken Piano
The keys, once pure, now lie fractured in a Leeds square. Broken yet beautiful, they mirror us— image bearers, wounded but still...
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Jon Swales
Jun 13, 20241 min read
Love in the Twilight: A Poem
In the twilight of a fractured world, love looks like something— plunging light into the caverns of our souls. Love whispers in forgotten...
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Jon Swales
Apr 1, 20243 min read
Echoes of Redemption
Click the picture above to access the book. Endorsements for my last book ‘Lament & Hope’. ‘We need Jon Swales at this time – pastor,...
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Jon Swales
Mar 30, 20241 min read
Redemption’s Dance
Redemption’s Dance In the shadows, The darkness. I stumble, Lost in the maze of doubt. Whispers of hope call my name, In hushed tones...
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Jon Swales
Mar 30, 20241 min read
Holy Saturday
The author of life now wears the shroud of death, He who said ‘I am the resurrection’ is lifeless, a corpse. The world's true light, in...
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Jon Swales
Feb 21, 20241 min read
Transcends: A Poem
God is not confined to text, ink, paper, or papyrus. The divine transcends words. Not bound by a system, nor limited to a story, the...
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Jon Swales
Feb 19, 20241 min read
Lent: A Poem
The Priest speaks, her hand moves, ‘Remember you are dust, and to dust you will return.’ I linger, pondering, I am flesh. The Priest...
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Jon Swales
Feb 12, 20242 min read
Deconstruction: Necessary and Painful
Deconstruction can be both necessary and profoundly painful. An existential crisis which touches deep within the human soul and...
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Jon Swales
Jan 23, 20241 min read
Where is God? A Poem
In the realm where the divine once dwelled, A silence envelops, veiled in shadows, untouched by motion, unheard in speech. Lifeless, the...
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Jon Swales
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Life is a Gift/Love is a Verb
We don’t get to walk without wounds, Or talk with words that have not been forged and shaped in the crucible of suffering. Yet, still,...
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Jon Swales
Jan 5, 20241 min read
Faith in a Secular Age- A Poem
My faith, delicate as spun glass, Intertwined and enfleshed with doubt. Hope, the quiet confidence in things unseen, Is woven into the...
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Jon Swales
Jan 1, 20241 min read
Hereford Cathedral
Amidst weathered stones, History and tradition intertwine, A sanctified haven, Set apart from the hustle and bustle of the high street. A...
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Jon Swales
Dec 18, 20231 min read
The Return: A Poem
We found ourselves east of Eden, Estranged and alienated, Hostile and unholy. We, broken sinners, yearned for a Savior, Homesick exiles...
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Jon Swales
Dec 9, 20231 min read
Advent Pilgrimage - A Poem
Stumbling towards Bethlehem to gaze upon the humble King, While the city lights entreat me to linger, to stay, to spend. Stumbling...
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