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John Davies
Whitegate, Cheshire
Married to Diana. Church of England vicar with two churches in Cheshire
Interests: greenbelt festival, pj harvey, coil, waterson-carthy, jim white. urban walking, bill drummond, patrick keiller, martin parr, the caravan gallery. mis-guide, notes from a small island. spaced, reginald perrin, match of the day 2. walt brueggemann, walton lane (approach to goodison), iona community, everton fc. church action on poverty, campaign against the arms trade. the fall, julian cope, sufjan stevens, psychogeography, trying to understand situationism. iain sinclair, adrift in caledonia, the it crowd, james alison, tim gorringe. lloyd robson, ts eliot, bill griffiths, stewart henderson. michael leunig. the city of liverpool. aberdeunant, the m62. email me: john[at]johndavies.org
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Luke 7 - Ruptured rituals and transformed taboos
... Jesus places himself in situations where the rituals of old have run their course, and opens up opportunities for people to create new ones, breaking taboos where they have to, all for the sake of liberating oppressed people from those things which harm them, all for the sake of... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Respecting the widows - and a request to Government
Respecting the widows - and a request to Government - my talk today connects with the churches' call for action.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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My Tokyo photo album
Posted Jun 3, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Tokyo thanks
Posted Jun 2, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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On being under authority
... In our highly specialised, compartmentalised, divided, society we tend to regard ourselves as autonomous individuals, able to stand on our own without reference to higher authorities. To show allegiance, to admit dependence, we regard as signs of weakness. Yet I suggest that we do all subject ourselves to authority,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Unity - without a victim
... Uniting like this is normal human behaviour, from the playground to the bartering-floor of the stock exchange. Groups of people get together to put things right with each other by putting someone else away. I’m keenly aware of this today, having heard that one of the influential people in... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Up
Have you ever wondered why, when the time came for him to leave his people on earth to return to his Father in heaven, Jesus chose to go up? He could have gone forwards, he could have gone backwards, he could have gone sideways, he could have gone downwards; but... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Where we are placed on the way to the city
Have you noticed how the story of God and humankind begins in a garden and ends in a city? Eden is our Paradise Lost - and the start of our separation from God; the new Jerusalem, the holy city coming down out of heaven, completes our reunion with God, it... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Peter's funny picnic
Would you go on a picnic with Peter? Look at the food he he laid out on his picnic blanket: four-footed animals, beasts of prey, reptiles, and birds of the air..... Would you eat any of those? - from yesterday's talks, Peter's funny picnic. The family service featured a 'real'... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Knowing the master's voice
... Peter the betrayer was like a lamb who had gone astray, a rueful ruminant torn between his love for his Lord and his fear of powerful others. But some time later Peter the loved and protected follower of God found himself transformed into a healer, a worker of a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Signed, sealed and delivered
Posted Apr 20, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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On leaving Lydford
Sometimes in life you have to try new things, or risk being forever haunted by thoughts of what might have been. It turned out to be a very good move in so many ways: lovely place to live, gentler pace of life (despite having five parishes to attend to), welcoming,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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We are Resurrection People
... Resurrection People get the point of Jesus. The point that because he has overcome the forces of evil in the world, because he came back to life after taking all the world could throw at him, there is no death in Christ, only life - and that is our... Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Posted Mar 26, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Jesus' crowd is a flash mob
... It may not be stretching our imaginations too much to suggest that Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem was a carefully orchestrated one-off event - a flash mob, if you like; a deliberate provocation towards the Roman imperial power with all its military hardware designed to keep the Jewish people compliant,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 24, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Placed among the poor
‘The poor, you will always have with you.’ Surely one of the most misread and misrepresented verses in all the gospels. Poverty is unfortunate but it is the way things are; there will always be poor people - so why spend time trying to eradicate poverty? For generations Jesus’ words... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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The bulrushes and the benefit system - celebrating battling mothers
My Mothering Sunday talk The bulrushes and the benefit system - celebrating battling mothers owes a great deal to Bishop David Walker's comments this week: Bishop of Dudley expresses Mothering Sunday concerns, Diocese of Worcester website, 7/3/2013. Continue reading
Posted Mar 10, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Repentance and reorientation - breaking the bonds of blame
How often have you heard it said of someone’s misfortune that they must have done something wrong to bring it on themselves? Worshippers murdered by armed soldiers whilst in the very act of worship - they must have done something wrong to have brought that on themselves; civilians caught in... Continue reading
Posted Mar 3, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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As a Hen Gathers Her Brood
'How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!' If you have ever loved someone you could not protect, then you understand the depth of Jesus’ lament. All you can do is open your arms.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 24, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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The temptations of Jesus and the horsemeat scandal
The devil roamed the moral wilderness of the international food industry, and met a supplier, hungry for profits. The devil said to him, ‘As you have the means to do it, why don’t you substitute horsemeat for beef?’ And the supplier said, ‘That sounds like a profitable idea, I’ll give... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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On prayer which gets involved
Prayer is a private matter? Consider ‘... the case of the 22-year-old Nottingham law student who boarded the last bus home after a night out, found herself 20p short of the £5 fare, and spent eight minutes – documented on CCTV footage – pleading with the driver to let her... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Why am I carrying a stone?
Lent is an opportunity for you and I to ask ourselves, why am I carrying a stone? And Lent is an opportunity to turn towards Jesus, the one who can help us to release our grip on those stones, to let go of them, drop them to the ground. Jesus,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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On mountaintop experiences
... Mountaintop experiences are sometimes a mystery to us. I can’t explain what really happened on the day that two friends and I were caught in a white-out on a peak in Snowdonia, where we couldn’t see our way any more because all there was before us was snow -... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Thanks to you we're off to Tokyo
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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Celebrating the character of faithful old men
Today let us celebrate the character of faithful old men; let us give thanks for the nature of males in their maturity. We all know a faithful old man; one whose life has developed into a series of small rituals, repeated unfailingly, at home, at prayer; rituals around rising, eating,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2013 at John Davies - Notes from a small vicar
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