In order for our lives to be creative, healthy and our own actions worthwhile we need this well time spent in careful silence....

During the Cold War period of the 1950s a unique person was elected Secretary General of the United Nations: Dag Hammarskjöld.

Faith is not about believing in an objective truth, but about hanging in there in a relationship. By keeping our gaze steady over the mess,

Jesus’ words - ‘the wind bloweth where it chooses’ - is an invitation into a new way of living not governed by the ego.

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 be published in the E...

Second of two addresses delivered Church of the Resurrection Mt Macedon, All Souls Day, 2019 The monks are to bear with patience the weaknesses of others, w...

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, peace of the saints,...

I first encountered The Rule at the beginning of the 1990s when Esther de Waal came to Australia and offered a seven-day Benedictine Experience or Retreat he...

With Christ, we are grounded in that dynamic affection of the Trinity. And it’s in this space that we can begin to see life differently. Thi

In many stories of the saints’ lives in the Celtic Christian tradition, there is this sense of God calling and drawing a person into their v

That she did not open this chapter with the name of the leading perpetrator responsible for revealing the ‘deviancy of which a modern societ

Faith It starts with an ache, with the asking, with a small pile of ash. For some, it comes by questioning, for others, by suffering, still others, it's like...

Epiphany, Christmas Cake, TS Eliot, Book of Job

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

As in life itself, on Facebook there is no such thing as a level playing field. How heavily ‘agendaed’, fraught with power play or emotional

'The world will be saved by beauty' Dorothy Day, quoting Dostoevsky When I was 15, living with my family in Ocean Grove, I took on a Saturday job. At that ti...

‘In the call of God the whole fabric of one’s life is woven.’ Of Martyrs, Monks and Mystics p 142 A little while ago I found myself saying to our Vicar, Fr H...

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 review of Graeme and J...

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 the Trinity Course ...