Haddon Willmer - While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer's website - church, theology and the university, politics and forgiveness, child theology, and other jottings

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God is love, overflowing love to all the world … And, we are told, God is in control, God is always with us.

But rather than being in control, the love of the loving God is frail, and marginal in the world.

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New post:

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Christian Theology and MAGA – a silence of a watchmen? (Ezek 33)

A seminar given for the Child Theology Movement

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https://t.co/ajyk56Hugt @TyndaleU

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New post: Foreword to ‘Climbing the Spiritual Mountain: The Questions of Jesus’ by Alan and Elizabeth Davey, published in 2014. I like this book because it fits human beings who are creatures beset by questions shaking and making the foundations

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Recent posts

Tenting with Jesus, first published on @networkleeds
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And some poems:
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Sermon preached for Remembrance Day at @MoortownBaptist. On giving todays for tomorrow and #COP29

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Both published in a new book:
Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking
Edd @drglennmiles and Christa Foster Crawford with @billprevette
Regnum, 2024.
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New posts:
Reflections on ‘Stepping out of the Traffick’
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Parents as Agents in countering Child Sexual Exploitation
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First published on the @networkleeds blog: https://t.co/GrelQ85ACP

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New post: Don't let the sun go down on your anger https://t.co/LsY1HaX8sd on Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie and @bartov_omer's essay which is not to be missed https://t.co/fs6XO7O6St

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When we abandon living in the world, when we no longer love the earth, when we ignore the neighbour on the road, prayer is left an empty, make-believe piety. We no longer walk with Jesus - Word made flesh - whatever our orthodox profession ..'

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New post: Politics and Prayer, published last week on the @networkleeds blog.

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'Praying is no substitute for politics.

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2) The silence of eternity, interpreted by love

A sermon preached at the funeral of Barbara Dews.
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Two new posts:

1) The Prayer of My Life
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'Prayer is much more than a few religious words spoken now and again: it is being open to God in everything that we do in life ..

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.. In the course of a lifetime we put only a fraction of ourselves into words. So real prayer needs to be more than words if we are to call to God out of the depths of our being...'

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The city best welcomes refugees when it values their prayers for its own welfare, when it makes it easy for them to pray for themselves and for the welfare of the city in one breath and does not put them into the position of praying against the city as an enemy.

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New post: Praying in our Exiles

Originally published many years ago in @BaptistTimes

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'Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?' Sermon preached on Luke 7.18-23, at @MoortownBaptist in February

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Love will think about what can be ventured with the enemy, inviting, inciting and enabling them to live in love. What can we, individually and politically, contribute to ease the way for frail, faulted, alienated human beings to become real neighbours?

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New post: Love your enemies

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Originally published on the @networkleeds blog

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But through and beyond diagnosis, Jesus calls and commands: ‘take up your bed and walk”. Love will be practical, more than words, realistic not sentimental, building community bit by bit, not being discouraged by its own tentativeness.