The death of hope
We simply cannot separate the paschal events from what is happening now in our world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran pastor who was executed by Hitler,...
30.3.2024
17:26
29.3.2024
19:33
ISRAEL’S SONG
Many bulls have surrounded me,
fierce bulls of Bashan close me in.
Against me they open wide their...
23.3.2024
10:10
YOUR LIVES ARE HIDDEN
Katalin Kariko, a Hungarian migrant to America, has written a book about her experience of pursuing...
16.3.2024
7:37
IT WILL DO HIM NO GOOD
Growing up in Ireland and hearing of a man who stole some cattle or made a...
9.3.2024
13:06
And now the good news
‘Bad news is good news, good news is no news, and no news is bad news.’ I do not know who...
2.3.2024
16:08
Cleaning the temple
After the comforting scene of multiplying the wine at the marriage celebration at Cana we suddenly...
25.2.2024
7:21
Up a high mountain
A young boy plays outside my window. A hedge divides us but I hear his shrieks...
20.2.2024
8:01
Alexei Navalny
Searching for a similar feeling of sorrow and outrage in my memory, when I heard of...
17.2.2024
13:22
WIDEN YOUR SPACE
The word ‘Lent’ comes from Northern Europe. It describes a practice, dating from the early Church,...
10.2.2024
9:16
The enemy
When a child comes into the world, the first question the parents ask is, ‘Is the...
4.2.2024
13:25
Let us go elsewhere
The first day, as Mark records it, of Jesus’ ministry ends in triumph. ‘The whole town...
27.1.2024
11:44
WITH AUTHORITY
Mark tells us, in his very first chapter, the people were astonished at what Jesus said...
21.1.2024
13:44
A carpenter’s workshop
What do you make of this? ‘Those with wives should live as though they had none.’...
