Speaking truth to power: when persistence overcomes resistance
The widow who took on the judge, and the Liverpool Poverty Hearing speakers whose truthful, expert, voices were for once given a platform to be heard.
A talk for The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, 19 October 2025; Church Action on Poverty Sunday (https://www.church-poverty.org.uk/sunday/).
Referencing 2 Timothy 3.14-4.5 (http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=154243982), Luke 18.1-8. (http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=154243957)
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18 Aug 2025
The Sunday girl stands tall
“In the modern world, we compete as individuals, against all other individuals. The community is nothing and the individual is everything. We have identified the enemy and he is us.” (René Girard). Discussing the conflict between a spirit which bows and bends us out of shape, and a spirit which helps us stand tall.
A talk for The Tenth Sunday after Trinity, 24 August 2025.
Referencing (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11.1-3,8-16&version=NIV) (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11.29-12.2&version=nrsva)Hebrews 12.18–29 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+12.18-29&version=NRSVA), Luke 13.10-17 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+13.10-17&version=NRSVA).
Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks (http://bit.ly/johndavies-talks.).
12 Aug 2025
We need to talk about Israel
We need to talk about Israel because today we stand witness to the extreme aggression of the current State of Israel against the Palestinian people, and as our Christian faith is intimately bound up with the historical faith of these semitic peoples, it gives rise to many troubling questions for us.
A talk for The Ninth Sunday after Trinity, 10 August 2025.
Referencing (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11.1-3,8-16&version=NIV)Hebrews 11.29 – 12.2 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11.29-12.2&version=nrsva), Luke 12.49–56. (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+12.49-56&version=nrsva)
Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks (http://bit.ly/johndavies-talks.).
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