The Salt Cellar Blog
My hope for The Salt Cellar Blog is that readers will find comfort, sustenance or at least suggestions to help them to be salt – not merely coping but living and not merely living but living life to the full!
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Hosanna! Save us!
It is easy to think that ‘Hosanna!’ is a word of celebration. In fact it means ‘Save us!’ When living in Egypt under terrible conditions the …
Will you forget me forever? (Psalm 13)
The psalmist asks ‘Will you forget me forever’. I suspect that we ask ‘why have you forgotten me?’ My mum used to ask: ‘why has God left …
How long, O Lord, how long?
The Psalmist cried ‘How long, O Lord, how long?’ These words from Psalm 6 are but one example. They are as relevant today as they …
The Temple of the Spirit
Do you recognize the phrase ‘The temple of the Spirit’? You can find it in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians where he says: ‘do …
The Kingdom of Heaven is…
The Kingdom of Heaven is Holy Russia according to the Russian Orthodox Church. It maintains that there is a mystical union between the land, the people …
Putin’s theology…
Are you wondering whether you read that right: Putin’s theology? In response to articles suggesting that Putin’s geopolitical land-grab is not rational some have pointed …

The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Luke 2) This coming Wednesday, February 2nd we celebrate The Presentation of Christ in the Temple. All babies were …
Use your eyes…
How do you use your eyes? Do you see the divine in our world? Do you sense the awesome in the simple? Are you shying away from …
Awesome…
We are still in the season of Epiphany, a time for reflecting, reflecting on the awesome. Epiphany started on January 6th when we celebrated the awesome …
Following the star…
Yesterday was Epiphany, the day when we think about and celebrate the Wise Men following the star. Another word for Wise Men is Magi. Magi were …