Good in Parts

I grew up with on the Sussex coast, with a father whose happiest time had been during his service in the Royal Navy. It follows, th...

Just over a month ago, I returned from my first visit to the Holy Land. I say, my first visit because having spent time in Jerusalem ...

One of the things that I love best about the Sutherland tapestry of Christ in Glory is that human figure, standing between the pierced feet...

From Jerusalem to Galillee. I had expected this to be the highlight of the pilgrimage, depending less on the competing claims of rival s...

6 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I ...

How do we make sense of all this? Of the devout Jews who made space for us, enabled us to take our place in prayer at the Western Wall, t...

Perhaps one should limit exposure to holy sites? Maybe it's possible to overdose on them, so that their power is diluted? Perhaps the i...

What do you say when there are no words?  (If there are no words, then any attempt to write seems almost criminally foolish, but I somehow...

An afternoon trip to Bethany, where we don't, if I'm honest, find much to draw us into the mystery in the church that marks the hom...

Bethesda...on a beautiful morning, with blue skies and warm sunshine, so easy to imagine the waiting invalids, hoping that today the waters...

And so the pilgrimage began to unfold. Utterly unexpected. Blessings where I'd predicted nothing but a tourist circus, disappointment...