Al Barrett gets earthy with the Ascension

The ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris tells of a ‘green’ god, born of earth and sky, a river god in a dangerously overheating world, who offers his cooling waters to the parched earth. After being brutally dismembered by his jealous brother, his widow Isis gathers the pieces of his corpse and plants them across the land of Egypt. Once a king, he has become the soil of the kingdom itself…

The Revd Dr Al Barrett is Rector of a local ecumenical partnership between the URC and the Church of England in Hodge Hill, Birmingham. He is author of thisestate.blogspot.com

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This is an extract from an article published in the May 2024 edition of Reform

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