A great gulf
“You have the poor with you always”. These, we are told, are the words of Jesus (John 12:8). They sound like a resigned sigh. We will...
2.10.2013
9:05
25.9.2013
10:40
A crafty guy
There is a famous painting by Caravaggio of the Calling of Matthew, the tax collector. Matthew...
10.9.2013
15:17
A man’s reach
“Oh, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”...
22.8.2013
7:59
Things unseen
Scott Fitzgerald opens his novel, The Great Gatsby, with the narrator recalling his father’s advice not...
28.5.2013
16:58
The journey in
The mounting traffic on our roads has the potential to annoy us. At its worst the...
30.4.2013
17:04
The hour is coming
‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’ is a quotation going back to John 4:23 and is...
17.4.2013
9:34
Only through them
We cannot promote violence and at the same time call ourselves Christians. There were such people...
3.4.2013
8:46
May he easter in us!
It is Saturday. We wait for the Lord to rise from the tomb and for the...
26.3.2013
12:15
Good Friday in Syria
‘While Quirinius was governor of Syria …’ (Luke 2:2). I have in front of me...
20.3.2013
8:47
A new deed
At 10am on the morning after the election of the new pope the receptionist at the...
6.3.2013
9:20
A heap of earth
A heap of earth from a burst pipe has blocked part of Second Street Extension for...
20.2.2013
12:32
A wandering Aramaean
‘My father was a wandering Aramaean.’ I always love the poetry of this simple sentence that...
6.2.2013
8:08
Finding joy in the truth
‘No prophet is ever accepted in his own country.’ We often hear this saying and we...
