The first reality which hits you when contemplating a pilgrimage such as The Camino Francés is the distance – walking 800 kilometres is a daunting challenge in any language.…
In my family this last month has been marked by the excitement generated by the UK hosting the Rugby World Cup. In the build up to the tournament I kept…
In my work within a prison chaplaincy in the high security estate I became increasingly aware of the real deprivations that are involved by incarceration. Prison is, of course, by…
Our Israeli Arab Christian bus driver slowly navigated the winding road up into the hill country of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. Bruce, a late middle-aged American Jew who…
TIMES of distress are paradoxically also times of challenge. When we least want to make for change, change it seems most wants to take us with it. And this makes…
At the beginning of August God invited me on a pilgrimage. A journey of saying goodbye to some things and moving towards other things. It started when the Spirit invited…
It is hard to believe that we are more than half way through September, zooming towards the end of the liturgical year, Advent and the celebration of Christmas. Harvest festivals,…
This seems to be a season for moving. We have so many friends who, in the last few months, have uprooted from their homes and moved, some just across town,…
The tradition of pilgrimage in Ireland is an ancient ones. There are many trails and paths known to be sacred for hundreds, if not thousands of years. One of the…
While I sat beside my mother lost week I read to her from the book In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands. She loved the story of…
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