Of grace and grief
Near where I live there is a graveyard ‘in which no one has yet been buried’. Someone had the idea of investing in the dead and...
18.4.2020
12:17
9.4.2020
11:31
An Easter crisis
Where is God in all this? Every question is related to the one asking it! So...
22.3.2020
14:48
Traveling without maps
A guard noticed a man in town this week who he knew was a thief. He...
8.3.2020
13:21
Come and die
‘When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die’ (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of...
23.2.2020
12:17
In search of the Amazon
On the 2nd of this month, Pope Francis issued his much-anticipated letter, Querida Amazonia, the Beloved...
15.2.2020
16:44
But I say this to you
There is a power in words and we have few orators today. We watch in alarm...
9.2.2020
6:38
Your light will shine
The number of baptisms, ordinations and religious professions is growing in Africa but this is one...
31.1.2020
15:08
A man called Simeon
‘How much more important the divisions between people are than between countries’. So wrote Virginia Woolf...
28.1.2020
16:49
Galilee of the nations
‘It is a Saturday. There won’t be much traffic’. I set off walking to the small...
19.1.2020
14:19
The light of the nations
The light, of course, doesn’t tell us what to do. The light shines on the path,...
4.1.2020
20:26
Forty years on
So 2020 has arrived! It has a ring about it. Soon we will remember – I...
28.12.2019
17:55
A great response
I was thinking of the response of the shepherds, ‘let us go to Bethlehem and see’...
25.12.2019
22:32
The century of the great test
113 people from a variety of professions gathered recently in Barcelona to ‘maintain a dialogue between...
