A Thieving Bird and Generous Ways of Finding Delight
This is the text of my Thought for the Day, broadcast on Tuesday, 3 September 2019 on BBC Radio Ulster’s…
Category: Musings
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.…
Morning Coffee & Prayer: Time of Your Life
One early morning back in May, the sun was shining and it was pleasantly warm even at 7.30 in the…
Sole Searching: Murr-ma
It’s just a fragmentary memory from my childhood in our Co Wicklow town at the seaside. I’m knee deep in…
Ancestors One Day: Notes with a Old Fountain Pen
I made notes for this thought for the day using a fountain pen. I started using fountain pens more than…
The Raw Materials of Faith: Body
Reflection 3 New Creation The first creation story in Genesis 1 tells us that God created humankind in God’s image.…
The Raw Materials of Faith: Body
Reflection 2 Jesus—the Second Incarnation There is a second incarnation, the one we’re more familiar with, when God himself steps down…
The Raw Materials of Faith: Body
Creation—The First Incarnation The word incarnation is one we tend to confine to one particular season of the year. It’s…
Church Tradition as Spiritual Endowment
Many of us, in difficult times, find comfort in the familiar and the habitual. I was thinking about this recently…
It is Good,(but there’s a serpent)
So there we were talking about the Hebrew word tov. It was me, and a bunch mostly comprised of teenagers…