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Two Poles, One Call
Just sketching things here, broad strokes. I know it’s not the full story. No nuance. But maybe it’s food for thought. The other night,...
Jon Swales
Apr 302 min read


Who can stop the Lord Almighty?
It doesn’t make sense anymore. It used to. But not now. It’s not just a tension, not just a holy mystery you hold with trembling hands —...
Jon Swales
Apr 302 min read


Wounds in the House of Love
Wounds in the House of Love Not all violence comes with swords. Some arrives with silence. With a kiss. With a deal struck in the dark....
Jon Swales
Apr 222 min read


Stay with Me (Maunday Thursday)
Stay with me, he says— but we are weary. Weary of sorrow, weary of waiting, weary of a world that keeps unraveling. Still— he invites....
Jon Swales
Apr 221 min read


Holy Saturday: I Who Once Was Blind
They say it is morning. They say the sun has risen. They say the dew is fresh upon the olive leaves, and the birds sing as they always...
Jon Swales
Apr 192 min read


The Wood between the Worlds (Good Friday)
I lit a candle. Not for peace— not yet— but for the man who called himself the Bread of Life, now broken, butchered, starved by the world...
Jon Swales
Apr 192 min read


The Rejected Stone
The Rejected Stone (Matthew 21:42; Matthew 24:2) They passed him by— this rough-hewn truth, still dusted with wilderness. Not the kind...
Jon Swales
Apr 151 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


#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


#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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