The human face is a wonderful thing. I sometimes think of it, or see it, as a kind of country, or rather, the map of a country....
The Church of St. Peter Gallicantu (the Cockcrowing) stands on the steep slope of the Kidron Valley south of the walls of the old city...
We gathered to celebrate a birthday. There were some cards of course, some with small presents, small because there comes a time when...
Over the last few years we have got to know one another and to respect one another. I think, and certainly hope, that this has become...
Do you keep memorabilia? I do, and now that I have seven boxes of it – and still going – I’m so glad I started collecting this and that...
Have you noticed that the very word preaching has developed a kind of off putting sound about it in recent years? I’m sure you’ve...
In more than one sense I must get this off my chest. I have just come home from a medical appointment. It was one about which I was...
Long ago in Europe there was a world very different from ours. If you walked its streets you could tell that it was utterly...
It was 1938, and I was 14 and on my grandfather's farm in county Kilkenny there was a donkey. Actually there were two horses...
It was summer and the setting sun poured along the corridor as I looked for the ward he had been moved to. Len was dying...
Jesus was once - more likely many times - asked what he meant by the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of Heaven. He used to give...
Not very long ago one of our great-grandchildren asked her great-grandmother a question that intrigued me. She said “Nanny”...
More than anyone else I know, Wordsworth wrote most tellingly and beautifully of the precious years of childhood. In his “Ode on the...
I have never been presented with so much evidence of the futility of war as when driving up the coast highway north of Beirut in...
For some reason I have always been intrigued by imagining what it would have been like to be present at a moment when something happens...
It was an hour of great beauty, the kind of beauty that the ocean and the coast give frequently. Towards the coming of evening the sun...
