The Holy Week ceremonies have been celebrated and as we progress through the Easter season with its wonderful readings from the Acts of the Apostles, we learn about the disciples…
When I die will there be trees, will there be birds in the branches and leaves spinning and dancing in the soft breeze? Will there be peonies rising from warm…
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; … Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy…
A Reflection on Interlinked MomentsIt was, as they say, a news-filled year last Friday, February 28.Agreements honoured since the end of WW II, the “Rules Based International Order” were trashed…
I have thought that silence is being silent in a quiet atmosphere: there are no sounds; nothing moves; everything stops working.However, it is exactly the opposite. Being in silence was…
As I watch the services for former President Carter I ask the question ‘What will history say about our present world leaders?” This year marks eighty years since the foundation…
Let the great rewilding of the world begin with you Let yourself be absorbed into something larger and Less tame than your isolated self. (Lorraine Anderson) Recently a heading in…
I was an adolescent when I first heard the opening lines of “Gate of the Year”, by Minnie Louise Haskins. It was read to me by my dad, with whom…
The importance of Saint Augustine (354-430) for Western civilisation in general, and Christianity in particular, can hardly be under-estimated. Many women, particularly those committed to empowering women unhappy about their…
Here it is again. Advent is suddenly here, and I am once again thrust into the world (and the work) of “waiting in joyful hope.”Waiting, in its many forms is…