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Taking our wounds to the Eucharist

Jan 26, 2017

Recently, a man came to me, asking for help. He carried some deep wounds, not physical wounds, but emotional wounds to his soul.
A race to the bottom as inequality widens

Jan 20, 2017

At a petrol station selling fuel under the brand name of a major multinational corporation, a weary-looking Nepalese pump attendant is on duty.
Orthodoxy, sin, and heresy

Jan 19, 2017

Recently, while on the road giving a workshop, I took the opportunity to go to the Cathedral in that city for a Sunday Eucharist.
Sleepwalking past the point of no-return

Jan 13, 2017

One of the great challenges in our world today is how to restore a balance in our approach to holistic development at a time when almost everything appears to have a monetary value attached to it.
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.