Imprisoned by hope
Probably we notice the dynamic running through the forty days of Easter. First, there is the time of apparitions when Jesus consoles his friends by showing...
14.5.2022
18:12
8.5.2022
7:56
Me and them
I do not think we will ever rest from wondering, as the ancient Greeks did, what...
24.4.2022
7:23
Galilee of the nations
Why do Matthew and Mark speak so much about Galilee? And why does Jesus say, in...
17.4.2022
2:20
The doors were closed
‘The sun rises; the sun sets. The wind turns and turns again. The rivers flow into...
10.4.2022
4:39
‘Blessings on him who comes!’
We live in a tension between the present and the future. We cannot settle for either....
2.4.2022
9:14
Despiséd, rejected
Once more we ‘go up’ to Jerusalem with the Jews of old to celebrate ‘the Pasch’....
27.3.2022
9:17
Coming to our senses
Few things are more moving than to see a family not giving up on an errant...
19.3.2022
14:34
One more year
The insistent message is, ‘change your way of thinking’. It comes in the earliest verses of...
12.3.2022
8:35
The prophecy of presence
Each day I read the news and view the pictures coming out of Ukraine in the...
8.3.2022
7:12
When a child speaks
There is a scene in the film The Lives of Others where a little boy is...
5.3.2022
17:01
Mechanics and gardeners
Life goes on. We know the Russians have invaded Ukraine but what can I do about...
12.2.2022
14:19
What a tragedy!
A reader, so disappointed by the ending of The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot,...
5.2.2022
14:22
The power of words
‘Doesn’t it show that a simple little conversation can change things? Its huge. The power of...
