Category: The journey

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: “Praise...

Sorry to have left you hanging over the weekend…….the suspense has been building, right? We left Ruth in the hands of Boaz. He was about to decide her fate – and by association, the...

I was dreading getting up this morning. Simply because I knew I had this chapter to face. But here I am. I’ll do my best. My problem is that the love stories of the...

Boaz seems like a lovely chap. What Ruth is doing when he comes across her is not unusual, as Boaz is already letting women glean behind the harvesters – just as God instructed the...

Leader: What do you hope to be when you grow up? That was probably an easier question to answer when you were younger. When you were five, maybe you wanted to be a ballerina,...

In the exhibition ‘Hidden Lives’ that took place at St Pancras International in January 2013, alongside the portrait of each urban refugee, there was a photograph of the individual’s most treasured possession.  Leader: ‘Oh,...

   This assembly is the third in a series I wrote on urban refugees which seems to fit in nicely with the Book of Ruth. In this assembly, we are going to think about...

Here’s the second of my assemblies on urban refugees – to see the refugees in the UK, visit Hidden Lives.   London, Birmingham, New York, Nairobi, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Port au Prince……..these are just...

I’m not ready to move on from the subject of refugees yet. If it is to be one of the main issues of the upcoming election, then it is worth more reflection. Some of...

I’ve never read the final three chapters of Judges before. Gang rape, dismemberment, idolatry, immorality and sodomy are not preached from the pulpit very often. These verses record the ultimate in depravity – the...