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Fulcrum Subjects: Poetry / Spirituality Other articles by Graham Kings are available from this site Discuss this Article on the Fulcrum Forum See the 24 comments on this article First Written Gospel
Jesus the Sacred, tried before Pilate; Pilate, the scared – trial before Caesar? Jesus, entitled to justice from entitled by Pilate, ‘The King of the Jews.’ First written Gospel, translated for all, title deeds of the proclaimed to the city, unchanging Word, ‘What is written, is written’, bequeathed to the world. Discuss this Article on the Fulcrum Forum Forum Posts About This Article:Posted by: Roger Hurding Friday 24 April 2009 - 02:55pm Thank you for the poem, Graham. It is beautifully crafted and wonderfully evocative of three great creative people, all contributing to but subsumed by the Master Craftsman and Easter glory. Posted by: Deleted user 974 Friday 24 April 2009 - 08:19am Wonderful to be engaged in writing poetry. And how maeningful it reached completion of Easter Day ! 
Posted by: Graham Kings
Wednesday 22 April 2009 - 07:28pm
We have just published on Fulcrum my poem, 'Finished in the New Creation'. It was completed on Easter day...
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Tuesday 21 April 2009 - 07:04am
We have just published on Fulcrum Tom Wright's 2009 Easter Day sermon preached at Durham Cathedral, 'Let Beauty Awake'. A wonderful encouragement and challenge for Easter. Posted by: Deleted user 974 Monday 20 April 2009 - 06:47pm Sorry to go - I expect you're used to folk going on a bit here! -- Cold Comfort Farm comes to mind --the novel and (Especially) the film. The Quivering Brethren are most instructive in their glum emphasis on Sin & Judgement. Come to think of it, it is a great film for the Resurrection season ! Posted by: Deleted user 974 Monday 20 April 2009 - 04:52pm oh and of course, Wrath ! Posted by: Deleted user 974 Monday 20 April 2009 - 04:51pm I note that it has taken us no time at all to move from Easter to some glum contributions on the fave topics of sin and judgement --rather eore-ish and perhaps show poor liturgical manners. Blow the season we'll stick to our negative obsessions ! Well count me out, I am enjoying the evidence of resurrection all about me in the resugence of another Spring! Even reading some of this stuff has not left me feeling glum. Try again ! (you never know...) Posted by: Dave Monday 20 April 2009 - 09:38am Judgement is the natural outworking of wrath. Restoration is the natural outworking of love. The fulfilment of God's purpose is the restoration of all things. In the very inadequate language of mathematical programming love defines the goal and wrath is a constraint. David Posted by: Phil Almond Friday 17 April 2009 - 08:59pm David H “That’s why, when I sing that interesting recent song and we come to the line, ‘And on the cross, as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied’, I believe it’s more deeply true to sing ‘the love of God was satisfied’, and I commend that alteration to those of you who sing that song, which is in other respects one of the very few really solid recent additions to our repertoire”. It is not clear to me whether Tom Wright is saying: It is true that the wrath of God was satisfied but it is more deeply true that the love of God was satisfied. If so, what does ‘satisfied’ mean with respect to ‘wrath’ and with respect to ‘love’? And why cannot the two truths be equally deeply true? Or whether he is saying something else. If so, what? Does anyone know? Phil Almond Posted by: Dave Thursday 16 April 2009 - 01:50pm Phil, Themes of sin and judgement make an early appearance in the Bible and recur regularly until very near the end. They are the context of Easter but they are not the Easter message itself. The Easter message is that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ (Acts 2:36)and death has been defeated (1 Cor 15). Thus I find Tom Wright's article very much on target. He two Easter sermons are available at http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/EasterVigil09.htm Living in Gods Future Now! and http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Easter09.htm Let Beauty Awake If you wan't his views on the sort of subject you raise, a good starting point is his Maunday Thursday sermon The Word of the Cross from 2007 http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Word_Cross.htm David Posted by: Phil Almond Tuesday 14 April 2009 - 09:21pm What a pity that Tom Wright did not mention, among the several true things he said (Times Opinion, 11 April) the two things about the Resurrection of Christ which are the biggest offence to the world and an increasing embarrassment to parts of the Church: sin (‘delivered for our offences and raised for our justification’); and judgment (‘God now declares to all men everywhere to repent because he set a day in which he is about to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he designated, offering a guarantee to all having raised him up out of the dead’). Phil Almond Posted by: John Oliver Sunday 12 April 2009 - 09:24pm Thanks for the reflection - The First Written Gospel. Wonderfully unexpected - and so inclusive as well. He is risen - at last we are alive! Posted by: Deleted user 974 Sunday 12 April 2009 - 06:18pm He us risen Indeed ! Posted by: Roger Hurding Sunday 12 April 2009 - 11:42am Thanks Graham for your poem, 'The Pause'. It is nicely judged and spaced, reminding us that God is the God of the pause as well as word and action, a call to 'the stature of waiting'.
Posted by: Graham Kings
Sunday 12 April 2009 - 08:30am
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Allelujah!
Posted by: Graham Kings
Saturday 11 April 2009 - 11:00am
My article, 'The Islington Passion: Wooden and Silk Body of Christ', was published on The Times online, 9 April 2009. The poem 'The Pause' was first published on Fulcrum on Holy Saturday 2007.
Posted by: Graham Kings
Thursday 9 April 2009 - 05:50pm
The Times this week has had a series of four page inserts for Holy Week, on pilgrimages, art and music. It is very encouraging to see such major coverage of Holy Week and Easter. See Fulcrum newswatch. Posted by: jon m Thursday 9 April 2009 - 09:30am Mike's poem about Thomas is especially lovely and thought-provoking - thanks so much for this. Posted by: Peter Head Tuesday 7 April 2009 - 03:56pm Yes, a good try Graham. I would call that a sympathetic reading/rescue. Except that none of the key elements of Romans 6 (as you helpfully outlined) are actually mentioned in the talk, and I can't quite shake off the impression that the Archbishop thought those words he quoted - because "he is alive, we are alive" - actually were in the Bible.
Posted by: Graham Kings
Tuesday 7 April 2009 - 02:53pm
The BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme report by Stephen Perry, 20 April 2003, on the Islington Good Friday ecumenical procession in 2003 may be heard here. For the front cover of The Reader magazine (winter 2004) with a photo montage of the 2003 and 2004 processions made up of photos taken by Barry Dunnage, see below (copied from here). We would value prayer for this year's procession from the N1 shopping centre to St Mary's church.
Posted by: Graham Kings
Tuesday 7 April 2009 - 02:50pm
Thanks, Peter Head. It comes from the whole theology of Paul's doctrine of being 'in Christ'. A focus for this is in Romans chapter 6. Paul invents verbs with the prefix 'together': buried together with Christ (v 4); crucified together with him (v 6); live together with him (v 8). 'But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.' (Romans 6:8). This theology of Paul's of 'what happened to Christ happens to those who are in Christ' is echoed in the response in the great prayer of thanksgiving in the Kenyan Service of Holy Communion: we have died together, we will rise together, we will live together. Posted by: Peter Head Tuesday 7 April 2009 - 02:19pm Interesting message from the Archbishop. I've had a little difficulty with one part, where he says 'we celebrate the fact that, in the words of the Bible, because "he is alive, we are alive".' Can anyone help me with where it says this in the Bible?
Posted by: Graham Kings
Tuesday 7 April 2009 - 11:23am
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Reflections on Easter have been published on YouTube and the text is copied below, Archbishop of Canterbury's site, 7 April 2009: Surprising numbers of people still go to Church at Christmas and Easter in this country, but probably more at Christmas than at Easter. Why then is Christmas that bit more popular? I suppose it's partly because Christmas is quite a simple story – it's about the gift of God to us, in the Christ child; it's about a present that all we have to do is receive. But Easter's more complicated. Easter is a journey. Easter is lots of stories rolled into one and it can make real demands on us. From the very earliest days of the church, celebrating Easter has been quite a long job. It's spilled over into the whole week before it – Holy Week – as it's been called for many, many centuries. And in holy week, what we do is walk alongside Jesus in the last week of his life. The church reads and acts out that story in all kinds of ways during those days so that by the time you get to Easter you've actually travelled quite a long way. So the whole story of Holy Week ends with the celebration of the resurrection. We begin it on Easter Eve, and then on the morning of Easter Sunday it blazes out in all its glory, in all its triumph. The tomb is empty, there is no power that can hold Jesus down or lock him up. The stone, the entrance of this great rock tomb is heaved away by the life of God, and there is no dead body there, there is no Jesus locked up in the past, there is only Jesus alive forever more. So at Easter we celebrate not just the fact that Jesus rose from the dead - as if that were an interesting fact that happened many centuries ago - we celebrate the fact that, in the words of the Bible, because "he is alive, we are alive". We know that we are held in God's hands, that our lives are held firmly and lovingly forever by the mercy of God. We know we have a future in his love, and that nothing can take that away. It's a long journey, a journey from the moment when we thought we could welcome from God cheerfully and happily because he seems to come and fulfil all our desires. Palm Sunday is a cheerful occasion. And then we have to face the fact that the Jesus who has arrived is perhaps not quite what we want, he's making us feel uncomfortable. He's changing us. And human beings push back against that change. And they do it violently and horribly. They try to push Jesus right out of the world. And we have to face in ourselves all those aspects of our lives which try to push God away. And then we realise the amazement, wonder and gratitude, but however hard we try to push it away, he won't go away. He's there, he's promised to be there, he will be there for us wherever we are. And so at the end of our celebration of Easter, that long journey of Holy Week, we can say, in the words of St Matthew's Gospel - right at the end of that Gospel – as we've heard Jesus saying, "I'm with you always. I'm with you 'til the very end of the world."
Posted by: Graham Kings
Monday 6 April 2009 - 11:07pm
We have just published on Fulcrum for Holy Week and Easter 2009: 'First Written Gospel', by Graham Kings 'Song of the Messiah', by the Anglican Church of Kenya 'Thomas', by Mike Bartholomew-Biggs Do add to this thread any poems or prose quotations that you think may be helpful spiritually this Holy Week and Easter. |
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