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Reflection, Readings and Prayer for Sea Sunday.

Jesus talks about the fickle people who are happy neither with John the Baptist and his seeming piety or Jesus himself and his seeming wayward ways.   They flung their flute our of their pram exampling to us where expectation and hope collide and we would be far better with one of them.

In the week when Glasgow experienced an usual knife attack in a hotel housing refugees, and the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway prepared to digitally welcome a new bishop; the lectionary flung up a Gospel passage about welcome and the psalm was about justice ... well what choice did I have?

Sparrows, worry and a bit of a song.  In a world of worry we have to, honest we don't.

What's in a name?  As the apostles are named and charged with curing all disease, so likewise are we.

A reflection and a wee bit about St Columba, founder of Iona Abbey and one of Scotland's most well known saints.  The art that accompanies this podcast is a stained glass window on the Isle of Lismore were St Mougal also set up a monastery to bring the Gospel to Scotland.  If you like bonkers stories about saints, for look up the one about these two it is a belter!

Trinity, the mystery that is best left unexplained.  A reading, reflection and prayer for those who want something bite sized.

As George Floyd whispered I can't breathe, the world changed, I pray for ever.  Yet history tells us that it is unlikely to be the case.  His death was not the start of something new, but the continuation of an inequality and subjugation that has gone on for centuries.  

A reflection and prayer on the past and how we need to change if we are ever to move into a better future.

Awake Child of God, a podcast for Pentecost including a multi-lingual reading in German, Finnish, Spanish, Italian and Danish.  And a Reflection from Kirstin Freeman