A flood of recognition
Suddenly it was clear to them. Up to then they were full of questions, sometimes in a daze, sometimes thinking of quitting....
22.5.2021
13:35
15.5.2021
13:42
Rising to the occasion
There is an English saying of unknown origin: ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man.’ It refers...
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...
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...
19.12.2020
17:45
Disturbed by these words
In 1954 Iris Murdoch published her first novel, Under the Net. It is about a man...
5.12.2020
18:25
Advent takes us beyond
Advent takes us beyond ourselves. There are times when we glimpse this, especially when we are...
