Colourful Dreamer

This is the theme for last weeks readings. I was away electing a new Bishop for the diocese of Waiapu. Bonnie preached and this is here intro to the theme. Sorry it is so late. In both Genesis and the Psalm we have beautiful poetry that affirms that God is the Creator.  God’s power is ultimately defined as creative.  And it is good power. It gives life. It transforms chaos into order.  It is the power of novelty.  God’s power is the source of entirely new possibilities. Genesis was meant to be read as a theological affirmation of the creative love of God.  It was never meant to be read as the how of creation - it was not science in the way we understand science - it was about the why.  It is a creation myth that affirms the dynamic power of creativity as part of how things become. God is creating the world.  To get a scientific view - the how - then evolution may be the best theory about how things become. But science does not tell us wh...

Gate Pa – Pentecost Sunday 2014 (and AGM) Readings: First Reading :              Acts 2:1-21                                         Second Reading :        1 Cor 12:3-13   Gospe l:                         John 20:19-23                                                     What I want to say: Pentecost invites us to let go ...

Today, Pentecost Sunday, marks the end of the great season of Easter. Last year Bosco Peters reminded us that…“Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost do not form three seasons. The Easter Season celebrates the three dimensions of the resurrection, ascension, and the sending of the Spirit. These fifty days, a seventh of the year, form our great "Sunday" of the year. Just as Sunday is the first and the eighth day, so the "great Sunday" of the fifty days of Easter begins with the day of the resurrection and continues through eight Sundays, an octave of Sundays, a "week of weeks." [1] So Pentecost is a turning point in our church year. It is where we leave Easter and enter into Ordinary Time. As such we are invited to stop and pay particular attention to the work of the Spirit of God in all creation, working and in through creation, and in and through ordinary people of all cultures and ethnicities, forming God’s just communities. Today also marks the birt...

Gate Pa – Easter 6; 25 th May 2014 Readings: Psalm:                                     66:8-20                                                                First Reading :                         Acts 17:22-31                             ...