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Tag: lament

  • lament

    This is the next in the slightly-less-frequent-than-I-had-hoped series of bloggages about prayer, beginning with buffet. Do explore the others if you fancy expanding your experience of praying. This one is, I confess, one that is mostly ignored in my tradition of church (Baptist). But I think we need to recover our ability to lament. Laments…

  • lamentation

    What do you do when you hear tragic news? This morning we have heard of the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines passenger aircraft, and while the perpetrator is not yet known, we can neglect to remember that there are many other victims of the on-going conflict in Ukraine; and Israel and the Palestinian territories have been in…

  • lament

    I have remarked before on how protestant Christians in the UK seem to have lost the ability to lament. It’s not simply a wringing of hands and ‘woe is me’, it is a way of praying that expresses heartfelt emotions in a raw and honest way. Yesterday’s reading from Scripture Union’s Word Live was exploring…