What if this passage about the mustard seed is not a parable about human behaviour at all - but instead is a pretty straight telling of how God works in nature? If it is then it should humble us. For mustard might be an 'invader', if we have to call it that, but this 'invasion' is one way in which other-than-human creatures bring healing and stability to habitats that humans have disturbed, renewing the fertility of soils that humans have farmed-out and overgrazed. Mustard and its kindred seeds are driving green life back into the open through the cracks in the concrete.

A talk for The Second Sunday after Trinity , 13 June 2021.

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