Not a neat reflection, just some stuff going round my head.

Today's PAYG was the parable of the person who was let off a huge debt they could not pay and then demanded with menance the paymnet of a titchy debt they were owed (Matt 18:21 - 19:1).  And it got me thinking about how what tends to happen is that Christians look at other people's 'sins' or 'debts' as huge whilst seeing their own as small.  The tendency to equate our unthinking, selective legalism with righteousness; the tendency to assign greater sinfulness to some aspects of life than others; the tendency to place oursleves in the role of God.

Social media is busy with reports 'shares' and 'retweets' of Vicky Beeching's decision to 'come out' as a lesbian (here).

BMS are launching a new inititative in relation to gender-based violence, focusing on that against women and girls, whilst acknowledging it also happens against men and boys (here and here).

I guess what strikes me is that, overall, we give far more Christian time and energy to the sleeping arrangements of consenting adults in committed relationships than we do to the violation of those who are powerless to act...

Kyrie Eleison,

Christe Eleison,

Kyrie Eleison