March 27, 2020 No Man is an Island Strangely, perhaps as we self-isolate, we begin to remember that we are one. Some distant memory re-awakened, we may hear …
March 26, 2020 A meditation for anxious times These are dismantling times when anxiety runs free and in terror, we have a thousand demands. But sometimes we do …
March 23, 2020 Julian – and heroic self-isolation It is strange how contemporary the past can suddenly feel. I recently wrote a novel about a woman who self-isolated…for …
March 23, 2020 My Coronavirus survival kit I write about living these times. We are all experiencing crisis in different ways. Last week, I watched my livelihood, …
March 16, 2020 Hopeful imagination – a virus spirituality In 587 BC, the Babylonians assaulted Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple. For the Israelites, it was the end of the …
February 25, 2020 And so to rest i’m taking a blogging rest for lent sometimes there’s just nothing to do, nothing to say, nothing to achieve sometimes …
February 24, 2020 Jean Vanier, a fall from grace Vanier was a giant of a man, physically and spiritually; or at least he appeared to be. Perhaps you have …
February 24, 2020 Happy endings? Do happy endings exist? There was once a young woman called Jeanette. She was taking her driving test, after failing …
February 18, 2020 On crime fiction and saviours Crime fiction…it inhabits the darkness. It starts with fracture, ‘the zero hour’, as Agatha Christie called it; the chase, the …
