The space between
Mark Hederman, a former headmaster of Glenstal in Ireland and later Abbot of the Benedictine community that runs the school, says, “The soul of any society...
19.3.2017
12:12
12.3.2017
12:16
The pool of the arches
Ramla, on the road from Cairo to Damascus and so in modern day Israel, was once...
5.3.2017
13:45
Soundings
“They took soundings” as the ship Paul was travelling in as a prisoner ran into a...
12.2.2017
12:48
Fire and water
I met a man today who is weighed down by pressures from every side: the bank,...
8.1.2017
6:11
No longer at ease
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!†If you think you know the...
1.1.2017
11:30
An explosion of energy
The international Iter (journey) programme in Southern France aims to “trap a plasma in a huge...
18.12.2016
11:40
Liking the direction
Human society is marked by Christianity for ever. Whether we are pre-Christian, lapsed Christian, post-Christian or...
10.12.2016
12:49
Blooming in the wilderness
“The Stations†is a Christian devotion going back to the time people first travelled to Jerusalem...
4.12.2016
10:23
A time for the axe
It is hard to imagine a candidate in the upcoming German election campaigning on the slogan,...
30.11.2016
15:18
Expectant
“How out of joint the whole world must have appeared to the Gael of the eighteenth...
20.11.2016
11:38
Sudoku and the art of being a king
In 1973, Robert Pirsig wrote a book called Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It...
11.11.2016
14:00
The day is coming!
There was the day we sat our first big exams and the day we heard we...
