Have you heard the expression ‘I’m all in’? It’s when a gambler decides that luck is finally on their side … The phrase means, I am betting all the money I have. The expression has become a metaphor to mean total commitment to something … [To read more, click on title]
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Rabbi, I want to see …
… there is blindness in our own lives, behaviours we want to cling on to. It can be hard to face but in our deepest hearts we know that they separate us from God and need to be cast off, like Bartimaeus’s cloak, so that we too can lead a full life as followers on the Way … [To read more, click on title]
Who is this that questions my wisdom?
It’s funny how things from childhood stick in your mind: I kept six honest serving men.
They taught me all I knew.
Their names were how, and why and what,
And where and when and who … [To read more, click on title]
Condemned or Released?
For divorce to be raised as an issue in the Gospels, it was obviously prevalent.
Even Joseph, when he was grappling with the immaculate conception of Jesus, was considering divorcing Mary as a way of saving face – before the intervention of the angel … [To read more, click on title]
