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The Invocation festival is going from strength to strength. Last weekend (6-8 July), this national discernment festival for young adults

Readings: Genesis 38. I imagine that when the rather racy story of Tamar and her three husbands appears as the First

There are certain joyful occasions in our community life which might seem to rival even the great feasts of Easter,

Reading: Genesis chapter 34, The Rape of Dinah The dramatic story of Dinah is one where hermeneutics will have much to

If we think family life can be a complicated affair in these times, the Old Testament can always seem to

Readings: Genesis 16-17, 21.Most modern readers of the Hagar-Sarai-Abram novella would see Hagar as the victim of the story. She

Sarai (or Sarah as she would become known) is a complex and ambiguous character. We first meet her in

In the second creation story, seeing how Adam desires someone equal to him, God gives woman to man as his

My father’s name was Jean-Baptiste, obviously the French for John the Baptist. He did not know much about the Gospel

You might think that moving the customary Blackfriars Easter Fair to a later date, and calling it the Blackfriars Summer

As we come to the end of the academic year here at Blackfriars, it's time for us to introduce our

I grew up in Springfield, a rural town in southeast Louisiana about 45 miles from New Orleans. While people refer