Harbour Faith Community

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

During Lent 2025, inspired by John Philip Newell’s "Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul", we’ll explore the voices of Pelagius, Brigid of Kildare, Alexander John Scott and others, rediscovering a Celtic spirituality that has always been present - even if often overlooked.

During Lent 2025, inspired by John Philip Newell’s "Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul", we’ll explore the voices of Pelagius, Brigid of Kildare, Alexander John Scott and others, rediscovering a Celtic spirituality that has always been present - even if often overlooked.

This is an introduction to the “emergence” way of thinking about God.

This is an introduction to the “emergence” way of thinking about God.

Thanks to visiting speaker Teagan MacAodhagáin

Cain and Abel weren't the only feuding brothers in the ancient world.

Reading Genesis means being comfortable with mythological language. Myths may not contain historical facts, but they can still hold plenty of truth.

Reading Genesis means being comfortable with mythological language. Myths may not contain historical facts, but they can still hold plenty of truth.

Reading Genesis means being comfortable with mythological language. Myths may not contain historical facts, but they can still hold plenty of truth.

For more info on Enneagram see https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions/ This episode also features music from the song "One" by "Sleeping At Last".

“First the fall, and then the recovery from the fall, and both are the mercy of God.” ~ Julian of Norwich

“The Bible does not exist to explain away mysteries and complexities but to reveal and explore them with a respect and restraint that resists conclusion.” ~ Marilynne Robinson

If we only understand the incarnation as what happened long ago when Jesus walked the earth, and we don’t learn to universalise that truth into to seeing the incarnated God present in every face we see, then all we have is junk religion and we have not been liberated.

But we never really wanted freedom did we? We just wanted to know what the rules were so we could figure out how to win the game.

“I’m suggesting that maybe the outpouring or coming of the Holy Spirit available to ALL people is the central point of the New Testament.”

When it comes to the Christ Event, the end is just as important as the beginning. Jesus proceeds from God, he exemplifies God, and he returns to God. Incarnation. Exemplification. Ascension. It’s not that God was only with us for the duration of Jesus' life on earth. It’s more that God has always been present to us, and Jesus helps us come awake to that truth. The ascension brings this profound mo...

If the incarnation is about God coming to earth, then the ascension is about God leaving the earth. But was God really only with us for the duration of Jesus’ earthly life? Was our Emmanuel, our “God with us”, really that short lived?

In calling people out “to the other side of the Jordan” (beyond the borders of Israel) and then baptising them back into their own faith, John the Baptist was doing something highly controversial with profound implication for us as people of faith today.

If the whole thing about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins doesn’t chime for you any longer, then you’re really not alone. It doesn’t have to end there though, and if you’d like to think again, jump right into this fourth and final episode of “The bells that still can ring”.