The Ethics of Eating – Barbara Kingsolver
Just finished listening to Krista Tippett’s glorious interview with Barbara Kingsolver on Speaking of Faith. Kingsolver’s book ‘Animal, Vegetable, Miracle…
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Advent Burns & Advent Stings 8 – Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton writes of this world, this demented inn he calls it, to which Christ comes uninvited Into this world,…
Advent Reflection – Mary
Joseph packed up the donkey and got ready to leave. They would leave at sundown to avoid a shameful parade…
Advent Reflection – Joseph
Matt 1:18-25 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married…
One (more) Small Step
soapbox over on soapboxrants has entered the fray over poppies, (for the earlier blogpost see here) and a comment of…
One Small Step
One morning last week I met my friend Trevor Ringland over breakfast. Before getting down to business we reflected on…
Marginal Voices
A friend told me recently that he finds it incredibly difficult to speak to poor people, and that this has…
The 'New' Ireland part 2
Directly opposite the text of the Archbishop’s sermon was the IT letters page. And here, standing in opposition to the…
Archbishop Brady and the 'New' Ireland
Archbishop Sean Brady, Catholic Primate of All-Ireland, stuck a beam in the eye of the bourgeoisie of Ireland’s newly rich.…
Growing Up
Right now my house seems stuffed with excitable, pre-pubescent girls, friends of my daughter. Actually, there’s only two extra but…