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...
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Jon Swales
- 13 hours ago
- 1 min
COP 28: A Prayer
Father of Creation, God of Compassion, We thank you for the fragile gift of life, And the beautiful world that you made. To you be all...
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Jon Swales
- 13 hours ago
- 1 min
Advent One: A Prayer
Advent One Father of Creation, God of Hope. The prophets of old looked forward, With expectation, And anticipation, To the arrival of the...
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Jon Swales
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Audacious Hope/The Great Defiance
“And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will...
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Jon Swales
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Where is God?
Where is God? Silent, in darkness, neither moving, nor listening nor speaking, His lifeless corpse is laid in the tomb. God is dead, and...
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Jon Swales
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
Hope is a verb. Hope looks like something.
Hope is the tenacious refusal to accept the 'status quo' as the final word, and it whispers, or dare we say, shouts, a defiant protest...
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Jon Swales
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
Christian Hope
Death adamantly utters ‘no’ to the gift of life, mirroring the ‘yes’ spoken by the violence of crucifixion to both empire and injustice....
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Jon Swales
- Nov 24
- 5 min
Climate Justice Evening: Prayers and Readings
‘It becomes ever clearer that climate change is the greatest threat we and future generations face. A true horseman of the apocalypse....
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Jon Swales
- Nov 18
- 1 min
Dear Chichester Diocese- An Open Letter
Dear Chichester Diocese , I noticed that you have recently voted to continue investing and making financial profit from the fossil fuel...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 18
- 2 min
Myths and the Need for Ecological Conversion
We find ourselves entangled in a fairy tale, woven from deep-seated myths that serve as the underpinning of our political and economic...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 18
- 3 min
Jesus and Peacemaking
Jesus, a Palestinian Jew raised within the Roman Empire—a colonizing force that established the 'Pax Romana' through military...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 14
- 1 min
Doubt- A Poem
Sometimes, Not all the time, I doubt. The gift of faith is absent, And for a moment, I feel alone. Sometimes, Not all the time, I doubt....
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Jon Swales
- Nov 11
- 2 min
Meditations on the Cross as Gaza Weeps
The horror and torture of Jesus reached its culmination. Dying alone, desecrated, one of the condemned, his body now lay lifeless in the...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 10
- 11 min
Seven Meditations on the Resurrection
This is an evolving blog post. Do check back for updates. In the resurrection of Jesus, the God-Man penniless preacher from Nazareth, the...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 7
- 1 min
Hope Whispers
Hope whispers my name, And speaks to my soul. ‘Rest a while, I have a healing balm and will tend your wounds.’ I counter, ‘But have you...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 7
- 1 min
Shelter from the Storm (Psalm 55)
Father of Creation, God of Justice, Hide not yourself from our pleas for mercy! Attend to us, Attend to your world and our home. Answer...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 7
- 3 min
Jesus and the Kingdom Community
- A few notes and reflections as I approach the Sermon on the Mount Jesus, the Jewish Palestinian peasant and the brown-skinned God-Man,...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 2
- 1 min
An Evening with John Dear (Christian Climate Action)
Fr. John Dear is an internationally recognized voice for peace and nonviolence. He has been arrested some 85 times for actions concerning...
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Jon Swales
- Nov 2
- 4 min
Enemy Love
Jesus preached, embodied, and enacted the Kingdom of God, and taught his followers to do the same. This kingdom represents the presence...
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Jon Swales
- Oct 31
- 4 min
Justice, Peace and Reconciliation: An Audio Course
(This post will be updated with more content in the coming weeks) This dynamic course aims to equip the church to engage the...
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