Blog: Pictures-Books-Reflections

    This is the grass your feet are planted on. You paint it orange or you sing it green, But you have never found A way to make the grass mean what you mean. A cloud can be whatever you intend: Ostrich or leaning tower or staring eye. But you have never found A cloud suffic

Valuing Age: Review by Arthur F. Moore This book has huge potential for empowering and enhancing the quality and relevance of pastoral ministry with older people. It is not a text book as such but it does offer the reader a richly and widely sourced introduction to the academ

Religion, spirituality and the social sciences: challenging marginalisation, Editors Basia Spalek and Alia Imtoual, (The Policy Press) 2008   There is no point in looking for a single event or factor that kick-started the revival of public interest in religion towards the

geranium   Is there no great love, only tenderness? Does the sea Remember the walker upon it? Meaning leaks from the molecules. The chimneys of the city breathe, the window sweats, The children leap in their cots. The sun blooms, it is a geranium.   Sylvia Plath, from Mys

God is wanting to connect with us, reach out to us.  That’s the heart of the celebration of Christmas.  We respond, hesitatingly, even unknowingly.  We come, making our way down to Church and to the door.  Why?  Nostalgia, distant memories, a hard year perhaps or we ma

   

Have you ever looked into the face of a tiny baby and wondered what will be in store for that child – how his or her life will unfold across the years?   There is an exquisite painting which hangs in the great museum of The Louvre, in Paris. It is called ‘The Adoration of