EN75 The Son has Risen: let nightmares cease!
07/01/10 07:40
Based heavily on some recent personal experiences, I have been reflecting on how a parent might bring comfort to a child who is having nightmares. From this I began to move further outwards and think what basis is there for any of us being comforted in the face of the ultimate nightmare of mortality and suffering.
EN47 Harry Potter/True Love Waits
22/07/07 13:53
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
Apologies for no extra text. I have just fractured my elbow and typing is not as easy as it was.
EN24 If a Hurricane could talk...
01/09/05 13:51
The Bible epilogue text can be found here and here and here(you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
Hurricane Katrina was horrific on all accounts. After some thought I picked up on a couple of points that seemed to be helpful: firstly when a disaster like this is about to strike you should just get out (which corresponds to the christian message to repent or turn from the way you currently live before God's judgement falls); and secondly, those who are in any position to help should help anyone and everyone regardless of their cultural situation. George Bush had been criticised for not caring about black people and I had wondered whether it was something that could be levelled at christians... are they selective about who they share the news of Jesus with?
Images of Bush, a card game I saw on the news and a satellite image of the hurricane.
I don't think that this one works very well. I took advice from Mike Tindall a few years back about using the epilogue text as an interactive element - to send people to the Bible to look up the words and try to work out the connections rather than lay it all out on a plate, but this one is just too abstract. Who know what I was talking about?
EN23 The Hour of Darkness
01/07/05 13:51
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
7/7, as it is referred to, was yet another defining moment in our shifting culture. I reflected on the parallel steps of the bomber and Jesus, how they both involved death, both were puzzling, and yet had such dramatically different consequences for anyone connected.
Flippancy is something to be avoided with this material, and I think it manages to do that. A lot of the time these strips require you to compare parallel compositions or scan repetitive elements. This one uses that device.
