Rejoice! Laetare Sunday
Reflection for Sunday 19th March, 2023 I’ve just finished reading the novel Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. It narrates the slow ruin...
'And to one God says....': a reading and reflection on the poem 'Mediations' by R.S.Thomas
Mediations by R.S.Thomas And to one God says: Come to me by numbers and figures : see my beauty in the angles between stars, in the...
Celebrating Life in a Post Party World March 2020
This piece was written just after the Australian bushfires at the end of February 2020, and before the Covid-19 world crisis. It was to...
St Benedict: For the God who Radiates in Community. Alleluia.
Second of two addresses delivered Church of the Resurrection Mt Macedon, All Souls Day, 2019 The monks are to bear with patience the...
Evelyn Underhill: For the God who Radiates from the Heart. Alleluia!
We grow best …not by direct and anxious conflict with our difficulties and bad qualities, but by turning to and gazing at the love, joy,...
Rowan Williams: Being Human
Being Human: Bodies, Minds, Persons by Rowan Williams (SPCK 2018) Available now at St Peter’s Bookroom $26.95 Reviewed by Carol O’Connor...
A World Without Values
That she did not open this chapter with the name of the leading perpetrator responsible for revealing the ‘deviancy of which a modern societ
Not Drowning, But Waiting: Pondering Advent with Samuel Beckett
How do we see life rightly? How can we know life as people who are waving, not drowning? Do we wait for Godot or wait upon Love actualised a
What does it mean to be an Atheist?
This is a question, being a believer, not really for me to answer. But it’s one I come back to again and again since I first wrote the...
Slipping the moorings by Bp Richard Rand
Many of us here at St Peter's, Eastern Hill, have had the privilege of hearing Bp Graeme Rutherford preach, or have been taught by him in...