The agony and the triumph

It sounds incidental. Just a detail thrown in to add variety: ‘some Greeks’ appear at the Passover festival in Jerusalem (John 12:20-33)....

To be a pilgrim

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce, describes a journey on foot from one...

Reality is bigger

Remember last year, that period between the outbreak of Covid 19 and the production of the...

So great a mystery

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a Roman senator in late antiquity, was horrified by the Emperor Constantine’s conversion...

Disturbed by these words

In 1954 Iris Murdoch published her first novel, Under the Net. It is about a man...

Advent takes us beyond

Advent takes us beyond ourselves. There are times when we glimpse this, especially when we are...

A lonely death

We had an unusual anniversary this week: a dying man attended by a dying man. Fr...

Christianity is about a true relationship with Jesus Christ

It's most shameful witnessing Christians who seem to erroneously believe Christianity is mostly about being blessed...

‘Our children may see this’

Far away from Africa in a corner of SE Europe a war raged that ended with...

Ten bridesmaids, ten interpretations

There are different ways you can interpret the parable of the ten bridesmaids which we read...

‘An ill-fated people’

The late Lawrence Vambe – he died last year aged 102 – opened his celebrated book,...

Standing up

My eye caught a report in the news lately of a courageous Indonesian who is engaged...

Fratelli tutti – the space between

Creating enduring unity among people is an on-going task. Zimbabweans were united in their desire to...

A time to choose

Among the simple dramatic stories Jesus told, which we call the parables, The Vineyard stands out....

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