The pure in heart
History loses our interest if we sense it is being used to programme us in the present. The past is not allowed to stand on its...
5.11.2013
13:53
22.10.2013
14:21
Small victories
There is a bizarre story in the scriptures about Moses praying for victory with his arms...
2.10.2013
9:05
A great gulf
“You have the poor with you always”. These, we are told, are the words of Jesus...
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...
