The Sacredness of Trees
Most days I walk my dogs through the forest and gardens of Castle Park in Bangor. It’s a real treasure.…
life, theology and spirituality on the county down shoreline
Most days I walk my dogs through the forest and gardens of Castle Park in Bangor. It’s a real treasure.…
One early morning back in May, the sun was shining and it was pleasantly warm even at 7.30 in the…
It’s just a fragmentary memory from my childhood in our Co Wicklow town at the seaside. I’m knee deep in…
I made notes for this thought for the day using a fountain pen. I started using fountain pens more than…
On a cabin porch high in the mountains I watched a hummingbird. I heard it before I saw it, the…
I’ve been thinking in recent weeks over what it means to belong. How we belong? Why we need to belong?…
In the public square, demeanour matters. Consider this text from Mark’s Gospel. Mark 6:53 When they had crossed over,…
In our house we were evenly split between yanny and laurel.* Personally, I was a yanny man, but my wife heard laurel. I…
In his book “Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians,” Rabbi Lawrence Kushner writes of a midrash on the story…
The regular cycle of bible readings known as the Lectionary keeps us in familiar territory as the Easter season unfolds.…