The doors were closed
‘The sun rises; the sun sets. The wind turns and turns again. The rivers flow into the sea but it is never filled.’ Qoheleth finds the...
17.4.2022
2:20
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,...
