We live in an age the devil must love. For ‘devil’, and likewise ‘Satan’, means ‘deceiver, one who confuses’, so this age of AI-generated lies, fake news (and people crying ‘Fake News!’ about real news), dissembling, finger-pointing, and distracting, is right up their alley. (This is true whether we take the devil as a literal … Continue reading A House Divided: A Reflection on Mark 3.20-35
There was an article in the news the other day referring to life in our current moment as “The Great Exhaustion.” On top of all of the normal concerns of work and home life, we’re all still dealing with the deep fatigue of the 2020 pandemic, the toxic political climate it released, a cost of … Continue reading Rest for Everyone (No Really): A Reflection on Deuteronomy 5.12-15 and Mark 2.23-3.6
A recurring theme on this blog (and indeed in the New Testament) is that being a Christian means living a radically different life. There is supposed to a marked difference between life following Jesus and life following our own impulses, between life with the Spirit and life outside of the Spirit. There are few places … Continue reading Life in the Spirit: A Reflection on Romans 8.12-17
[I'm on vacation this week, so I thought I'd repost some of my favourite older posts for Pentecost. Enjoy this post from 2019.] The great promise of Christianity is that a fundamental change has come into the world. The “normal” ways of the world, whether conceived of as sin or fate or the writing of … Continue reading A Spirit of Freedom (A Reflection for Pentecost 2019) [Repost]
[I'm on vacation this week, so I thought I'd repost some of my favourite older posts for Pentecost. Enjoy this post from 2023.] The creation story in Genesis famously imagines the chaos out of which God creates life as being a fathomless ocean. Whatever else we might think about this story, it rightly places water … Continue reading Come, Drink: A Reflection for Pentecost 2023 [Repost]
Matthew Root 