A talk for The Third Sunday of Lent, 5 March 2023.

Following a conversational reading of the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, John 4.5-30,39.

'He told me everything I have ever done!' - finally, a man who had come to know her fully, to understand her entirely, to love her wholly, to accept her as she was. No wonder she was so transformed that day. No wonder that her story made such an impression on those who heard it; because she may have been the most notorious addict for love in the city of Sychar; but everyone else in that place shared that ache to be accepted, that longing to be loved. This is one of the many Bible stories where women are the central characters. Women who discover that in a world where they are usually suppressed by men, God gives them agency. 

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