Galilee of the nations
‘It is a Saturday. There won’t be much traffic’. I set off walking to the small lighthouse on the strand and, turning a corner, ran into...
28.1.2020
16:49
4.1.2020
20:26
Forty years on
So 2020 has arrived! It has a ring about it. Soon we will remember – I...
19.11.2019
6:37
This is the day
On 17 April 1980, we made our way to Rufaro Stadium to witness the birth of...
20.10.2019
8:19
I’m alright, Jack
This saying used to be, perhaps still is, current to describe a person who is self-satisfied...
13.10.2019
17:52
Places of encounter
This Sunday, 13 October, John Henry Cardinal Newman will be declared a Saint by Pope Francis...
12.8.2019
2:53
Dressed for action
I feel sorry for the soldiers patrolling the streets of Srinagar. They have to enforce their...
28.7.2019
15:31
Search and you will find
Can you teach a fish to swim? Can you teach persistence to people who have persisted...
21.7.2019
10:32
Peeling an orange
The late Jean Vanier, the founder of l’Arche communities, used to tell the story of giving...
13.7.2019
18:30
He was moved by compassion when he saw him
A father in his twenties and his little daughter were drowned two weeks ago trying to...
29.6.2019
17:06
He who veins violets
Yet God (that hews mountain and continent,
Earth, all, out; who, with trickling increment,
Veins violets and tall...
23.6.2019
15:47
The courage of Joshua Wong
I am shaken when I read of the courage of some young people. ...
