Ritual
May opened with a grand display of ritual; people in ‘funny clothes’ held captive to tradition as a crown was placed on the head of a...
29.5.2023
7:40
25.5.2023
11:31
Africa Union
When I landed in ‘Salisbury’ all those years ago, the embers of the Central Africa Federation...
20.5.2023
12:58
Coming into his Kingdom
I bought this postcard of the tympanum over the door of the cathedral of St Trophime...
8.5.2023
9:42
A coronation
What a spectacle it was! Millions watched the crowning of King Charles III and the question...
22.4.2023
16:55
Dissolve into it
The late Pianist Sviatoslav Richter explained his approach to playing music as being an ‘executant, carrying...
16.4.2023
11:55
Breakthrough
For centuries people dreamt of flying. Then we did it. In 1903, the first plane left...
8.4.2023
12:41
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! What is the content of this greeting? Christ has risen! We do not have...
3.4.2023
14:48
The hinge of history
Countries, businesses and organisations search for a logo to announce, in a simple sign, who they...
21.3.2023
13:39
A SILENT GESTURE
We passed between the marked graves of Rhodes and his companions in the Matopos on the...
18.3.2023
11:49
THE CROSS
The Christian faith is utterly simple and yet it has layers of meaning we have no...
9.3.2023
16:21
A snake in the bath
Well, not quite, but definitely in the bathroom! On a visit to that room in the...
6.3.2023
10:00
CINDERELLA – AN ADULT CHILDREN’S TALE
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Cinderella. Her mother was very ill...
26.2.2023
7:32
Afraid to ask
On a cold winter’s night in July 1973, guerrilla freedom fighters visited St Albert’s Mission on...
