More Reflections

When I was training for the ministry ,one of the subjects I had the pleasure of researching and writing about was friendship from a Christian perspective. I really enjoyed it – I discovered some old writers (Alred of Rievaulx) who’d tackled the subject 800 years ago, right up to recent authors such as Liz Carmichael… Read more

I’ve caught a bit of Brian Cox’s latest BBC TV series, ‘Solar System’ which is being shown at the moment. I’m sure he enjoys travelling to far flung places around the world to illustrate a point and of course, the CGI images of Titan, Ganymede and IO are remarkable, even if they are points of… Read more

I was recently invited to take part in an ‘Escape Rooms’. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, it’s a game in which a team of players crack puzzles and accomplish tasks in order to be set free from a room in which you are trapped. It’s a concept very similar to the… Read more

Have you noticed that in the Gospel accounts some people are named while others are not? Bartimaeus the blind man that Jesus healed is named, as is Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus’ cross. In today’s reading the rich man is not named, while elsewhere the wealthy Zachaeus is. Why are some people named while… Read more