Writing
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Courage and faith, water and earth,
reveal unseen spaces nurturing life,
strengthening hearts... more» -
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Some writers reflect on the 12 days of the song... more» -
Beauty blossoms the landscape
of the bare heart
warming it like the breath of creatures
healing like nectar... more» -
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when all is said and done
that might and power... more» -
...Christians should never be triumphalist as the magnificent truth of the gospel is always framed in thin, beautiful, delicate ice. more» -
Do we know that within each one of us is the unspeakably beautiful beat of the Sacred? more» -
There is something telling about the fact that the very day after Christmas the Church celebrates the Feast of Stephen, the first Martyr. more» -
Happy Feast of St. Francis! The hospitality of Franciscans has been a pivotal gift in my life, and I owe them much for helping to preserve my vocation and to sustain me when I made a flying leap into ministry beyond the local church. more» -
My hospice patients were dying, but they still longed for fresh air and birdsong. more» -
The gospel story assaults our sense of justice. More subversively, it challenges our conception of God. Isn't God “justâ€? Isn't God “powerfulâ€? Why didn't God protect his faithful servant John the Baptist, now in the despot Herod's hands because of his faithfulness to God's call? more» -
Taize counted us as adults, not young people, and we had a special place to meet and eat, with just a little more comfort. We didn't talk about denominations or our distinctive traditions - perhaps because the support of Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Churches, is now accepted, understood, and embedded. more» -
Over the river
the 'red' horse
is munching under the fleur de lis tree
its scarlet coat deepening ever slightly
into the most daring of pinks... more» -
John's Gospel is a stand-out work of poetic imagination. Not the fanciful imagination of Alice in Wonderland, but the incisive insightful imagination which penetrates more deeply into truth and reality. more» -
At night it was light and from the bed in my grandparent's house, I could look through the open curtains to the ocean and watch the midnight sun. Golden calendula marigolds grew in abundance in the garden, petals adding colour to home-made butter. more» -
In the Beginning, not in time or space,
But in the quick before both space and time,
In Life, in Love, in co-inherent Grace... more» -
The picture-perfect vista on the wall
was captioned in the style of Peter Pan – more» -
"I don't believe when you look around you're seeing ghosts but I do believe in the presence of the past. I was overcome with it. I was so totally moved I felt exhausted..." more» -
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We find ourselves with Mary, the mother of Jesus and the others who loved him, in a place of many overwhelmings this day... more» -
Can one hold a Christian Faith without a supernatural belief? To say 'no' confronts a prominent dimension of Christian orthodoxy. To say 'yes' engages growing numbers asking unconditional questions about Biblical interpretation in the light of current scientific, historical and philosophical research. more»