Pilgrimage By Esther Hizsa, from Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim (unpublished) Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. – Luke 9:51b Ash Wednesday He’s on the road waiting for me today …
This morning I came across this beautiful prayer by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of my heroes who always challenges me with what it means to follow Jesus as we walk towards …
“And in the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) Only one fix remains, …
When I was diagnosed with M.E. (Myalgic Encephalitis, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as it is now more commonly called) in 1989 I was a teenager with everything to live for. …
Several years ago Tom and I had the privilege of visiting St Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai desert. This is one of the oldest working monasteries in existence, and monastic life in …
Today’s prayer is the first of a series taken from the Lenten prayer cards we published. It is adapted from a longer litany for Lent that I wrote several years …
There is an ancient Japanese art, from the 15th century, called Kintsugi. It is, essentially, the art of taking broken pieces of porcelain and remaking them into pots. These are …
The Inner Battle by Lynne M. Baab I was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1997, and soon after that I had a conversation about Lent with the senior minister …
Lent – Not Denial But Transformation Its Ash Wednesday, (yes it is already Ash Wednesday in Australia and New Zealand) the one day of the year when Christians still flock …
Today’s prayer is attributed to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu adapted from an original prayer by Sir Francis Drake. I first posted this prayer a couple of years ago and …
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