Holy Sh*t

Holy Sh*t Episode 12: Nasty, Brutish and ... very, very long

Today Mark continues with his marathon Bible reading. He's currently wrestling with St. Paul and gives a masterly summing up of the Hebrew and New Testaments so far...

Holy Sh*t. Episode 11: Self-Care In A Time Of Tyranny.

It's Maggy this week as Mark has important Grandfather duties. Today we look at the importance of taking care of ourselves in the various sh*t storms going on in the world today.
Only if you take good care of yourself are you balanced and strong to take good care of the other.

Holy Sh*t. Episode 10: The Sacrifice of Integrity

The modern world worships Mammon - money as opposed to God. Money itself is neutral but the power we believe it has over us is not. 
How often are you asked to sacrifice your integrity for safety or for financial reward? It would be rare if it had never happened and how sad is that?
And yet the safety offered for that sacrifice is no safety at all. if someone wants you to give up their soul for them they are surely not going to stop there...

Holy Sh*t. Episode 9: Ash Wednesday

Today is the first day of the Christian season of Lent. Does it actually have any meaning for us today? Does it just mean giving up chocolate for God or is there a deeper and more useful way of looking at - and experiencing - this traditional time of fasting and letting go?

Holy Sh*t. Episode 8: We Are All Judas.

Mark once wrote a novel about the descendants of Judas Iscariot. Maggy once wrote a novel about Judas's wife.
Obviously this character impacted both of our lives. We're taught to revile him but Jesus loved him. Jesus washed his feet along with the other disciples; Jesus kissed him as Judas handed him over. Jesus forgave betrayal...
Can WE forgive betrayal? And whom have we in turn betrayed?

Holy Sh*t. Episode 7: Horrors of the Bible

Today Mark wrestles with his commitment to listening to the Bible from start to finish as an audio book. It's breaking his heart. We discuss why...

Holy Sh*t. Episode Six: MAGA and the Anti-Christ

No, we are not saying President Trump is the anti-Christ. What Maggy is saying is that such an archetype exists and its influence shows in all kinds of power-grabs, violence, cruelty and hatred. 
The trouble with an anti-Christ archetype is that it is Lucific. It looks exciting and interesting and very, very attractive. That so many of us are actually addicted and excited by the latest news from the USA is a telling sign that there is something very wrong.

Holy Sh*t. Episode 5: Mr President, please have mercy

We may be late to the party but we cannot allow to pass unregarded, Rt Rev. Mariann Budde's sermon at Washington Cathedral last week, nor the MAGA backlash to it.
We are being called to become spiritual warriors - and we must do this. This is a Lucific presidency which certainly appears entertaining to those not directly affected but not to call out the evils already being proposed would be to become complicit. Let us speak together: 'Mr President, please have mercy.'

Holy Sh*t. Episode Four: Foreigners and F**k-Ups

As President Trump puts all the government's diversity staff, Mark takes a look at Jesus' compassion for the 'outsider' the 'other' and even the official enemy of his people.
MAGA Christianity is Christofascism. it has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Jesus.

Holy Sh*t. Episode Three: The Patchwork Saints

'By their fruits you shall know them,' Matthew 7:16. Today Maggy's homily is about a lady called Rebecca who isn't Christian; yet she is a Patchwork Saint who works harder than anyone else in Maggy's town to help people in need. You can tell the World you are Christian all you like, but what are you actually doing to help?
We all need to become Jimmy Carters or Rebeccas rather than being part of the majority who don't - or won't - engage in the world's healing but who prefer to criticise those who do.