WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE
Among Ignatius of Loyola’s first companions were Francis Xavier whom everyone knows and Peter Favre whom nobody does. While Xavier travelled the world, Favre travelled Europe...
9.8.2024
16:42
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...
18.5.2024
8:30
THE WIND BLOWS WHERE IT WILL
I like the wind. I don’t know why. Perhaps as a child I enjoyed going to...
13.5.2024
14:46
THE CARPENTER’S SON
‘Is not this the carpenter’s son?’ (Mt 13:55). Jesus started life in a carpenter’s workshop –...
4.5.2024
5:01
Steve Biko and the envisioned self
Recently, on a visit to South Africa, I met a priest who was deeply concerned about...
