Life in Bethlehem Today   For us, our journey into the issues of Justice and Peace in the Holy Land started with a Holy Land Pilgrimage...

Lourdes has been a place for pilgrimage since 1858 when Our Lady appeared on 18 occasions to a poor 14-year-old girl called Bernadette...

This picture hung in the bedroom that my sister and I shared when we were very small. When one of us couldn’t sleep my mother would pick...

Prison Fellowship is an organisation which comprises of an ecumenical group of Christians who support prison chaplains in their work. Its...

Last week, I came across a podcast interview with the writer and psychotherapist Francis Weller ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/6...

For thirty years of my life, I was given the immense gift by the monks of Worth Abbey to be able take some part in their daily routine of...

I keep wondering if caring for creation has become something I just try to do – recycle, be a mindful consumer, and especially support...

As I thought about writing this, I reread the blogs on the LCSB website, carefully curated by Jerome. They are wise and perceptive. The...

When I was young enough to be at the beginning of my adult faith-life, but not old enough to have any idea how I would live out my...

In 2004, during a major escalation of long-running conflicts in Sudan, I travelled to Darfur to help manage the combined aid response of...

It was in the 1990s that I encountered Greg Ryan, a stalwart of the WCCM, using 'Pax' as a conclusion to his emails. At the time, with...

There's an ecological crisis but perhaps you haven't noticed. It seems many people haven't. Writing this I'm staying in a small village...

We are guests in God’s world and stewards of its resources. ‘The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and...

It is easy to think of St Benedict as someone in control of life.  His rule provides in-depth guidance and advice on how to live life as...

I think we can all acknowledge that inherent in our human condition are all sorts of complicated confusions and paradoxes.  For example,...

Feeling a little frazzled, I recently took myself off for a walk to the beautiful modern chapel at Ripon college, the Anglican...

Being a member of the Lay Community of Saint Benedict has 4 key components for me: ·        The Rule ·        The Community ·        Our...

Several weeks ago, I gave a talk to a gathering of meditators which I belong to called Benedict’s Well.  The title of the talk was...

We live in a world where total silence is impossible. A friend went on a walking holiday in New Zealand. She said it was beautiful, but...

For St Benedict, prayer and work seem to be on an almost equal footing. Ch 8 – 20 of The Rule of St Benedict deal with the Monastic life...