WOUNDED BIRD

Since Tom died, I am not myself. I hardly know who I am. After being one of a pair for so many years, I seem to have lost my identity. Whe...

The other evening, I watched the film Calvary written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, as Fr James...

Tom's diagnosis of colon cancer rocked us both.  The weeks while we waited for the processes leading up to surgery to be completed wer...

In his post titled "More Songs About Buildings and Food" , Rmj, who blogs at Adventus , asks a question at the very end. What ...

Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber: I once heard someone say that my belief in Jesus makes them suspect that I intellectually suck my th...

"You must let go of all conception of what eternity is , which means letting go of who you are, in order to feel the truth of eterni...

Colin Coward at Changing Attitude : On the contrary, from my experience, I know that Christian worship is often complacent, reinforcing t...

IT IS hard to imagine a prime minister doing such a thing now , and even then it seemed rather surprising. In May 1988 Margaret Thatcher ...

WHERE TO NOW? So there you have it–my argument that the stool upon which we sit when we do theology is horribly unsteady. No matter how...

David Hayward - “the need to leave” (watercolor on paper, 7″x10″) Limitations... ...of age ...of arthritis ...of energy ...of ...

  A favorite passage from one of my favorite books is the quote below from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited . Charles Ryder and S...

Anchor, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome I've heard and read many words about the terrible tragedy in Sandy Hook Elementary School in New...

CERN, via Associated Press Proton collisions from the search for Higgs boson. Now that you know it's probable that the God part...

The oldest icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel, c. 6th century (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai). (Click on the...

From this Story of the Day : Can you prove any of the stuff you believe in? my son asked me & when I said that's not how belief w...

There was once a man who didn't believe in God, and he didn't hesitate to let others know how he felt about religion and religious h...

From Tim Chesterton at Faith, Folk and Charity : Those of you who pray, please pray for my good friend and colleague Joe Walker. Joe is mar...

Reinhold Niebuhr: “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. “Nothing which is true o...

From the Telegraph in June of 2003, when Jeffery John had been chosen as bishop-elect of Reading in England, but before he was pressed to s...