A sound like the rush of a violent wind
Pentecost is remembered and celebrated this weekend. It is the final act in the drama that started in Bethlehem with the birth of Mary’s child. The...
4.6.2022
9:48
28.5.2022
19:07
The spine of the earth
Peter Frankopan has written an astonishing book, THE SILK ROADS (2015). It has been described as...
21.5.2022
10:18
Beyond locked doors
‘It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no...
14.5.2022
18:12
Imprisoned by hope
Probably we notice the dynamic running through the forty days of Easter. First, there is the...
8.5.2022
7:56
Me and them
I do not think we will ever rest from wondering, as the ancient Greeks did, what...
24.4.2022
7:23
Galilee of the nations
Why do Matthew and Mark speak so much about Galilee? And why does Jesus say, in...
17.4.2022
2:20
The doors were closed
‘The sun rises; the sun sets. The wind turns and turns again. The rivers flow into...
10.4.2022
4:39
‘Blessings on him who comes!’
We live in a tension between the present and the future. We cannot settle for either....
2.4.2022
9:14
Despiséd, rejected
Once more we ‘go up’ to Jerusalem with the Jews of old to celebrate ‘the Pasch’....
27.3.2022
9:17
Coming to our senses
Few things are more moving than to see a family not giving up on an errant...
19.3.2022
14:34
One more year
The insistent message is, ‘change your way of thinking’. It comes in the earliest verses of...
12.3.2022
8:35
The prophecy of presence
Each day I read the news and view the pictures coming out of Ukraine in the...
