Snow on the mountain: Welsh gnomic poetry and the practice of attention

By Rod Benson Recently, I have been reading a lot about Celtic history and spirituality. For someone like me, who identifies as a follower of Jesus, the most compelling feature of Celtic Christianity is arguably its integration of biblical faith, disciplined prayer, missionary adventure, poetry and attachment to place. It invites us to explore a Christian …

The way of transformation

Statue of John Wesley by Paul Raphael Montford, Melbourne, Australia, 1935. A sermon by Rod Benson Psalm 1 When I was growing up in Papua New Guinea I attended a school where religious education was taught every Friday, and I remember a Swiss missionary, Mrs Jungen, who with her husband Erwin had been pioneer missionaries …