A consoling smile
She remembered that smile forty years on. Mrs Hungwe lived in a remote area of NW Zimbabwe, called Gwaze, and during the Liberation War, the nationalist...
19.8.2019
8:35
12.8.2019
2:53
Dressed for action
I feel sorry for the soldiers patrolling the streets of Srinagar. They have to enforce their...
5.8.2019
6:26
I will build bigger ones
‘I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones’. The farmer had a good year...
28.7.2019
15:31
Search and you will find
Can you teach a fish to swim? Can you teach persistence to people who have persisted...
21.7.2019
10:32
Peeling an orange
The late Jean Vanier, the founder of l’Arche communities, used to tell the story of giving...
13.7.2019
18:30
He was moved by compassion when he saw him
A father in his twenties and his little daughter were drowned two weeks ago trying to...
7.7.2019
6:39
Come, be my light
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a name many have heard but may know only the barest...
29.6.2019
17:06
He who veins violets
Yet God (that hews mountain and continent,
Earth, all, out; who, with trickling increment,
Veins violets and tall...
23.6.2019
15:47
The courage of Joshua Wong
I am shaken when I read of the courage of some young people. ...
15.6.2019
18:51
The martyrs of Uganda
We do not see and touch the presence of God in the world as we do...
8.6.2019
18:27
Renting our own house
Why do people have to sacrifice so much to become free? And why do those in...
3.6.2019
18:36
A cloud took him
‘We have lift off’. We hear these words as a rocket carrying astronauts takes off for...
25.5.2019
17:33
The politics of tenderness
These two nouns do not sit well together: politics and tenderness. Politics is a competitive business...
