The Spirituality of Illness – contemplating one's death
I guess we don’t spend too much time contemplating how we might meet our end. Life itself is often too…
Category: Formation (page 4)
Foraging on the Crookedshore (or what I learned of spiritual formation from picking blackberries)
It’s the fifth day of September and there is a strong sense that the story of 2008 has turned another…
The Spirituality of Illness – Technology & Ethics
I mentioned in my last post on the Spirituality of Illness that I am the proud recipient of a tissue…
The Spirituality of Illness – fill and subdue the earth
I meant to blog about this a few days ago but was unable to get around to it. Better late…
The Spirituality of Illness—An Interview with Marva Dawn
During a morning workshop hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Christianity at East Belfast Mission, I took the opportunity to…
Unpleasant Summer Weather and Bored Kids
This summer, it hardly needs to be said, the weather here has been awful…if you want the sun (which I…
The Spirituality of Illness – The Dilemma of Miraculous Cures
I’m at home a couple of weeks now and recuperating well. My daily walks are getting longer, I’m no longer…
Evan Almighty, My Friend Dan and Eugene Peterson: redivivus
I’m going to be off-line for an indeterminate period, laid up in the Mater Clinic in Dublin undergoing heart surgery…
Little Deaths: the Practice of Goodbye – redivivus
I’m going to be off-line for an indeterminate period, laid up in the Mater Clinic in Dublin undergoing heart surgery…
The Spirituality of Illness – This Is My Body Broken
It was Communion Sunday in church and we said together the words of consecration, this is my body broken his…