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The Most Offensive Part of the Good Samaritan Story
Jesus did not just tell us to love our neighbour. He challenged us to rethink who we believe deserves our love.
 • Paul Ian Clarke
The Jesus We Imagine Is Not Always the Jesus We Meet in the Gospels
The surprising silences that reveal what the Gospel writers really wanted us to notice
 • Paul Ian Clarke
The Jesus We Imagine Is Not Always the Jesus We Meet in the Gospels
The surprising silences that reveal what the Gospel writers really wanted us to notice
 • Paul Ian Clarke
Welcome to the July Sacred & Secular Update
A month of hidden details, deeper questions and discovering God with us
 • Paul Ian Clarke
What Would Change If You Knew You Were Going to Live Forever?
How the certainty of eternity might change the way we see ordinary life
 • Paul Ian Clarke

July 2026

When God Takes Away the Coat
Joseph, identity, and discovering who we really are
 • Paul Ian Clarke
Why We Never Feel Completely at Home
The forgotten detail at the end of Eden that may explain our deepest longings
 • Paul Ian Clarke
Mary, Martha and Lazarus: Three Ways of Being Close to Jesus
The Bethany dinner where one family revealed three very different responses to Christ
 • Paul Ian Clarke
Five Loaves, Two Fish and the Fear of Not Having Enough
The disciples saw an impossible shortage. Jesus saw the beginning of a meal.
 • Paul Ian Clarke
The God Who Made the Stars Also Made This Moment
Welcome to today’s reflection.
 • Paul Ian Clarke
When Every Conversation About God Becomes a Debate
Some conversations strengthen faith. Others slowly drain it.
 • Paul Ian Clarke
When the God We Inherit Isn’t the God We Discover
Why questioning one doctrine forced me to look again at the character of God
 • Paul Ian Clarke
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