Trapped in a dark cave
Two stories dominate the news; the World Cup, with its agony and elation, and the boys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. Both have brought...
9.7.2018
8:00
24.6.2018
9:34
The centre cannot hold
A comment caught my eye in the Tablet recently about the Irish referendum to change the...
10.6.2018
12:16
White rose
What is one flower in a forest? I have just been reading Eoin Dempsey’s White Rose...
3.6.2018
13:58
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi is the name of a college of Cambridge University and it is the name...
20.5.2018
13:25
A masterpiece
People have always been drawn by beauty. We have only to look at the ancient temples...
13.5.2018
13:08
Secular saints
When we speak of ‘saints’ we normally mean baptised persons who have been formerly declared as...
4.5.2018
20:45
That your joy may be complete
When I started reading the Scriptures I used to find the Farewell Discourse in John (Chaps...
29.4.2018
12:13
Pruning the fruit bearers
“Every branch that bears fruit he prunes.” People who achieve great things seem to also suffer...
22.4.2018
12:35
Embarrassed by holiness
There was a time when the word ‘holy’ was a welcome sound. But today it has...
8.4.2018
11:05
Seeing something special
“The headmaster said I couldn’t be taught. He threw my schoolwork out the window.” Richard was...
23.3.2018
13:56
He is coming
Is it because I have a mind formed in the north that I become irritated when...
18.3.2018
14:11
A grain of wheat
We were running out of fuel but there was no sign of a filling station anywhere....
