by Maggy Whitehouse | Mar 17, 2021 | Spirit
At the Edinburgh Festival 2018. If you’re a minister, you have two choices: you can be a transmitter of the Living God or you can be a museum curator. The museum curator believes that God hasn’t spoken to us since the Bible was written down and that God has no idea...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Dec 31, 2020 | Spirit
As 2021 starts, we are all – whether we like it or not – nearly one year in on our journey to Ithaka, the island home of Odysseus. Odysseus, one of the conquering heroes of the Trojan war, should have been home within a few months but the voyage took ten years....
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 13, 2020 | Spirit
Chapter Two (there’s a reason why it’s chapter two and not chapter one – trust me on this 🙂 ) It’s not a good idea to wake up in a mortuary. It’s likely that there will be an awful lot of screaming. In my experience, it’s not necessarily the mortuary...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Jun 22, 2020 | Spirit
Introduction and Chapter One below. We must try to understandthe meaning of the agein which we are called to bear witness.We must accept the factthis is an age in whichthe cloth is being unwoven.It is therefore no good tryingto patch. We must, rather,set up the loom...
by Maggy Whitehouse | May 4, 2020 | Spirit
The Cosmic Christ. Image from Toledo Cathedral. At times of crisis, the natural inclination is to want to be saved and that’s exactly the purpose that we give to the idea of a Messiah. If you remember as far back as the movie Armageddon, the space ship sent...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Apr 30, 2020 | Spirit
“The thing that got interrupted had no business continuing. This virus, this is a god; that is not overstating things, and the gods are in the house, and god is having god’s way as gods tend to do. Our obligation is to exercise a radical hospitality to this...
