Up a high mountain
A young boy plays outside my window. A hedge divides us but I hear his shrieks of delight and sometimes his wails of distress. His mood...
25.2.2024
7:21
20.2.2024
8:01
Alexei Navalny
Searching for a similar feeling of sorrow and outrage in my memory, when I heard of...
10.2.2024
9:16
The enemy
When a child comes into the world, the first question the parents ask is, ‘Is the...
4.2.2024
13:25
Let us go elsewhere
The first day, as Mark records it, of Jesus’ ministry ends in triumph. ‘The whole town...
27.1.2024
11:44
WITH AUTHORITY
Mark tells us, in his very first chapter, the people were astonished at what Jesus said...
6.1.2024
20:59
Look up!
When I was small, I had weak eyesight and developed a habit of looking at the...
23.12.2023
8:18
The baby in the rubble
CHRISTMAS is a time of celebration. Families come together and share food and drink and enjoy...
17.12.2023
6:34
Hope and history rhyme
A two-meter tall crucifix dominates the wall behind the altar in Arrupe University College chapel in...
19.11.2023
9:39
For a better world
I knew a man who had a farm and towards the end of his life we...
4.11.2023
18:52
Saints and sinners
Cambridge historian Eamon Duffy has written a marvellous book on the history
of the popes called Saints...
29.10.2023
11:03
Crossing the threshold of ourselves
How quickly we have forgotten the lessons of lockdown. Planes no longer flew and we could...
