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The Mystery of How

How is a fish, bending agile smooth-silver through the water, is the bird’s supple-slip glide,....

Maria Skobtsova: Twentieth Century Martyr

She was a woman who believed that in ‘communing with the world in the person of each individual we commune with God.’ For her ‘each person i

W.B.Yeats, Internal Silence and Jigsaw Puzzles

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

Trail Marks, Dag Hammarskjöld and the Spirit of Truth

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

St Philip: Mess, Emptiness, Discomfort

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,

The wind blows where it chooses April 2020

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

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 b...

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 wea...

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, ...

Going Sane With St Benedict

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

Spirit: The Sharing of Love

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

God: The Calling of Love

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

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

Shrove Tuesday

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, sti...

Epiphany, Christmas Cake and the Book of Job

Epiphany, Christmas Cake, TS Eliot, Book of Job

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

The Peculiar Face of Facebook

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

'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 Satu...

The Ministry of St Peter's

‘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 sayin...

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 re...

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