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Incarnation — God is with us

Jan 06, 2017

For many of us, I suspect, it gets harder each year to capture the mood of Christmas.
Two-tier system in general hospitals would undermine community solidarity

Jan 06, 2017

The proposal to extend the controversial “full-paying patients” scheme to more general hospitals has raised concern.
Our churches as sanctuaries

Dec 22, 2016

Whenever we have been at our best, as Christians, we have opened our churches as sanctuaries to the poor and the endangered.
Time for a carpet of stars this Christmas

Dec 21, 2016

The familiar Nativity scene from the Gospels shows wise men in search of a newborn child who offers hope for a fallen world and a new kingdom of justi
The martyrdom of inadequate self-expression

Dec 19, 2016

Art too has its martyrs and, perhaps, our greatest pain is that of inadequate selfexpression.
Greed, corruption and ‘the tragedy of the commons’

Dec 19, 2016

One of the less understood concepts of our time is that of “the Commons”: Wikipedia defines the commons as “the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth.
The end of the world

Dec 09, 2016

People are forever predicting the end of the world. In Christian circles, this is generally connected with speculation around the promise Jesus made at his ascension, namely, that he would be coming back, and soon, to bring history to its culmination and establish God’s eternal kingdom.
Being consistent about human rights

Dec 09, 2016

It was not so long ago that boat people or refugees were carted away to immigrant detention centres, facing an uncertain future.
The dangers in being a warrior prophet

Dec 02, 2016

A prophet makes a vow of love, not of alienation. Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they need to be highlighted today when a lot of very sincere, committed, religious people self-define as cultural warriors, as prophets at war with secular culture.
Overcoming fear; lighting a candle in the dark

Dec 02, 2016

In these troubling times, it is important to remember the words of Jesus: “Do not be afraid.”