Rising to the occasion
There is an English saying of unknown origin: ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man.’ It refers to a situation where there seems to be no solution...
15.5.2021
13:42
8.5.2021
9:58
‘He was lifted up’
We take it for granted but it is beautiful to look up into the sky and...
26.4.2021
16:47
A loss of roots
The burning of the Jagger Library on the main campus of the university of Cape Town...
18.4.2021
12:44
They stood there dumbfounded
It is said there is only one thing harder to take than bad news, and that...
11.4.2021
10:37
‘Get thee to thy typewriter’
I could not sleep last night and read Doris Lessing’s autobiography instead. She spent her formative...
5.4.2021
9:15
Do this in memory of me
It was Sunday. Rumours began to circulate that he was alive. It seemed ‘sheer nonsense’ (Luke...
28.3.2021
20:12
The little bird strains towards its mother
Theologians and mystics speak of the utter ‘otherness’ of God. He cannot be known as we...
21.3.2021
6:50
The agony and the triumph
It sounds incidental. Just a detail thrown in to add variety: ‘some Greeks’ appear at the...
7.3.2021
13:34
To be a pilgrim
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce, describes a journey on foot from one...
7.3.2021
13:07
Reality is bigger
Remember last year, that period between the outbreak of Covid 19 and the production of the...
27.2.2021
11:16
So great a mystery
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a Roman senator in late antiquity, was horrified by Emperor Constantine’s conversion to...
27.2.2021
11:15
Lent and green tea
As soon as we hear the word ‘temptation’ – and the first Sunday of Lent is...
