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Spikenard & Ash
She moved like silence in a room full of eyes, broke the jar like a prophet breaks the sky. No words, just oil — and the scent of burial....
Jon Swales
Apr 151 min read
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A Christian who Weeps
I don’t want to be a Christian who forgets how to feel— who hides behind answers, quotes verses like shields, and silences sorrow with a...
Jon Swales
Apr 122 min read
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Magnificat in the Gutter: A Group Study Resource
The Magnificat is a powerful prayer of divine reversal, where Mary proclaims God's justice for the oppressed and mercy for the humble....
Jon Swales
Apr 107 min read
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A Cruciform Prayer for Justice and Peace
Christ of the margins, you know. You know the weight of betrayal, the sting of injustice, the silence of God. You are found— not in...
Jon Swales
Apr 81 min read
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Huldah the Prophet
2 Kings 22:14–20; 2 Chronicles 34:22–28 Huldah was not a priest. Not a scribe. Not a king. She wasn’t at the top of the hierarchy, ...
Jon Swales
Apr 82 min read
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Magnificat in the Gutter
Found a Bible in the foodbank queue, someone left it wedged in the radiator. Fell open to Mary’s song— The ‘Magnificat’, they call it....
Jon Swales
Apr 82 min read
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Beatitudes: Eight Lighthouse Reflections on the Beatitudes
Lighthouse Beatitudes When Liberator saw the crowd, he went up a mountain and sat down to encourage his people. He opened his mouth and...
Jon Swales
Mar 2919 min read
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A Lament
How long, O Lord? How long will the blood of children cry from the dust? How long will hostages be held and celebrations be made of...
Jon Swales
Mar 211 min read
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Dressing Like a Monk
By way of explanation if you have seen me out and about in the last few weeks. Last year, I felt a nudge before Lent to wear a cassock —...
Jon Swales
Mar 172 min read
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Cruciform Adaptation: A Call to the Church in a Time of Unraveling
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, climate and ecological breakdown are no longer distant threats. They are here. Right now....
Jon Swales
Mar 153 min read
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Oscar Romero: A Saint for a World on Fire
In a world battered and bruised by injustice, where the cries of the oppressed so often fall on deaf ears, the witness of Oscar Romero...
Jon Swales
Mar 103 min read
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#5 The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
'For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.' At Lighthouse, we say these words together — sometimes...
Jon Swales
Mar 73 min read
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#4 The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil At Lighthouse, this line of the Lord’s Prayer carries weight. It’s prayed by those...
Jon Swales
Mar 53 min read
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#3 The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after we’ve prayed for the kingdom to come, after...
Jon Swales
Mar 53 min read
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#2The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
Give us this day our daily bread Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after cries for the kingdom to come, we move to the next line of the prayer...
Jon Swales
Mar 33 min read
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#1 The Lord’s Prayer- A Lighthouse Reflection
Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after a burst of heart-felt, honest, and holy prayer — the kind that comes when people have nothing left to...
Jon Swales
Mar 34 min read
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One Foot in Eden
One foot in Eden, where light spills soft through the branches, and the river sings a song without sorrow. Here, the air is thick with...
Jon Swales
Mar 31 min read
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The Church is not a Museum
The Church Is Not a Museum Churches are not museums of tradition or graveyards of yesteryear. They are not mausoleums filled with the...
Jon Swales
Feb 251 min read
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A Canticle for a Burning World
Blessed be the One, wild and holy, whose breath stirs the void, whose voice hums in all things, whose light flickers in the deep. ...
Jon Swales
Feb 252 min read
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The Dream
Night spills across the earth like oil, thick with the hush of waiting. I slip between waking and the deep unseen, where time is...
Jon Swales
Feb 163 min read
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