A good day for miracles – a bad day for quiet picnics and boat trips

I had tons of questions that I wanted to ask Jesus. He had just had a huge run-in with the … More

A song of songs for the brokenhearted

I know we’ve met before, but now I just see glimpses of you. Peeking in at the window, hiding in … More

Have you ever seen the world pictured from space? It’s beautiful but unrecognisable. Countries are the wrong way up, coastlines … More

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the … More

Please read the passage here. There are five protagonists in the story and each of them sees things differently. The … More

I have been using both of the images above in Ignatian Prayer to centre myself on Jesus. Here’s what I … More

This quote is from “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. As explained in an earlier post, I am reading Tolstoy because … More

This is a handout I produced to accompany a talk I gave introducing Ignatian Prayer to my church. I hope … More

The text is here. This was a very personal experience yesterday when I used this Psalm for Ignatian prayer, and … More

The text is here. This is a really hard chapter, and I haven’t made sense of it all by any means. … More

Here’s the text. The Philistines are in Israel’s land and controlling what goes on in it (see verses 19-22, the … More

As always, here’s the passage. This passage focuses on three characters; Miriam, Aaron and Moses. Miriam is the gossiper, she … More

Here’s the text as usual. Some points I noted Now God seems miles away (compare with Job 14) and Job … More

Here’s the text. In this chapter Job is tormented because it appears that he knows God is very close to … More

Here’s the text. Some thoughts I had: It’s OK to complain, but don’t deny God. Sometimes bad things happen when … More