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Feb 8, 20225 min read

What better leads to life

There is nothing like a brush with mortality to sharpen the senses and invite reflection on what really makes for life. This week I had...

Feb 1, 20225 min read

The Word as Holy Seed

The call of the prophet Isaiah is exciting and disturbing with the glory of God made visible and yet in contrast the painful...

Jan 25, 20225 min read

The Disturbing Word of God

The Word of God often disturbs the one called to speak; those who are the hearers of the Word; and disturbs the social order of the...

Jan 18, 20226 min read

The Enlivening Word of God

The Word of God is expressed in creation, most fully in Jesus who was known as the Word made flesh, and in Scripture. And when we truly...

Jan 4, 20225 min read

When you pass through the waters

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you ......

Sep 28, 20214 min read

Saint Francis and Creation

St Francis lived 800 years ago and yet his life and teachings seem very contemporary in many ways. Like all saints his life is surrounded...

Apr 13, 20215 min read

Easter Three - Transformation

We are meant to be changed by the risen Christ. We are called to be no less than transformed by the Holy One. But this process of...

May 19, 20205 min read

Ascension

The time between Ascension and Pentecost is a time of in-between, of hope and anticipation, absence and anticipation, a liminal space.

Apr 21, 20204 min read

Easter Three - The Emmaus Road Walk

In this wonderful story known as the Emmaus Road Walk we are reminded that resurrection is a mysterious business.

Nov 16, 20194 min read

Companions on the Journey

One of my (many) favourite gospel stories is the account in Luke know as the Emmaus Road (Luke 24:13-35).