Fly or die
It is a well-known image: a caterpillar must die so that a butterfly can fly. A less well-known one is about the sea-bird, the gannet. I...
14.9.2024
21:03
7.9.2024
14:28
BE AHEAD OF YOUR CURSOR
The cursor is that little arrow that tells you where you are when you are typing....
1.9.2024
0:00
CREATION SUNDAY
I had a dream last night in which I was travelling in a truck. The driver...
9.8.2024
16:42
WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE
Among Ignatius of Loyola’s first companions were Francis Xavier whom everyone knows and Peter Favre whom...
3.8.2024
7:01
REACHIING BEYOND MY GRASP
I am by the sea. Each day I look out over the ocean seemingly stretching forever...
22.7.2024
7:33
SHEEP, BUT NO SHEPHERD
On 5 August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested on a bend of the Durban/Pietermaritzberg road near...
14.7.2024
12:45
SYCAMORE TREES
Amos was a cultivator of sycamore trees which produced a fruit like figs, but not the...
6.7.2024
8:53
EFFECTIVE MIRRORS
St Clare of Assisi, who lived in the 1200s, used to say, ‘the Lord has called...
29.6.2024
10:29
ZAMASWAZI
‘It is as easy to deceive ourselves without noticing it as it is hard to deceive...
16.6.2024
9:39
The dream
‘There is a dream dreaming us’, is a saying of the people of the Kalahari. I...
25.5.2024
12:12
Power, wisdom and love
In a memorandum to Anglican priest David Russel in 1974 expressing his ideas about God, Steve...
