[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.