A Look of Love: Feeling the breath of God
In his latest book A Look of Love - Witnesses to Jesus, Belfast author Jim Deeds shares a series of imagined conversations, stories and poems based on the life of Jesus and his early followers. This extract, inspired by the resurrection and John 20:19-22, brings readers into the presence of the risen Christ 08 April, 2021 02:00 According to Mark s Gospel, Mary Magdalene, accompanied by Mary the mother of James and Salome, discovered Jesus empty tomb. In John s account, Mary Magdalene encounters the risen Jesus and tells the fearful disciples what has happened
IT was, as I remember, the last day I was ever afraid. Indeed, the feeling of what fear is like is something I can barely remember now. Isn t that remarkable?
A Look of Love: The Crucifixion
In his latest book A Look of Love - Witnesses to Jesus, Belfast author Jim Deeds shares a series of imagined conversations, stories and poems based on the life of Jesus and his early followers. This extract for Easter, inspired by Mark 15:21-41, brings readers face to face with the cross 01 April, 2021 02:00 Belfast author Jim Deeds has been making crosses from reclaimed wood during the Covid-19 pandemic. His latest book, A Look of Love - Witnesses to Jesus, includes a story about the man who made the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Picture by Mal McCann
Contemplation in action 17 December, 2020 02:00 Belfast writer and broadcaster Jim Deeds has been making a series of small holding and standing crosses from reclaimed wood. Picture by Mal McCann
JIM Deeds was sitting in his west Belfast back garden two summers ago when he felt one of those taps on the shoulders, those jolts of inspiration, that occasionally come into our lives and won t go away, writes William Scholes.
Rather out of nowhere, he decided he was going to make a wooden cross for his mother.
He describes that first effort as rudimentary. Its successors are anything but, and in the days and months since he estimates that he has made a couple of hundred in a garage workshop that has become rather more workshop than garage .