Music I love -­ but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse this pensive heart of mine...

Our Christmas decorations may never quite have the power and dynamism of God’s but we can make them part of our conscious decision to...

Dear Friends, Thank you for your contributions to our Christmas Prayer, all of which were, I know, heartfelt, coming from deep concern...

Coming to save the world, God doesn’t look at it with despair that it would seem to deserve, scrumple it up and decide to start again,...

Thursday 17th December - Icon of the Day I’ve always loved [the] image of prayer as birdwatching. You sit very still because something is...

And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you saying, ‘This is the way, walk in...

The Christian, in the Advent season above all, must learn something of God’s own simultaneous ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to all religious aspiration...

I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take...

He will come like last leaf's fall. One night when the November wind has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth wakes choking on the...

Paul gives us an astonishing understanding of waiting in the New Testament book of Romans, as rendered by Eugene Peterson, 'Waiting does...

Salvation to all that will is nigh; That All, which always is all everywhere, Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear, Which cannot...

Dear Friends, There’s a line in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca describing a nurse who is attending to the whims and wants of Mrs Van...

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along, that while we need to be reassured of...

Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other - things that are of no real...

Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and...

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery. Jerusalem Jackson...

In our secret yearnings we wait for your coming, and in our grinding despair we doubt that you will. And in this privileged place we are...

Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. Thomas Merton *** Image:...

Dear Friends, One of the things which has kept me sane since March has been my walks with the dogs in the mornings. I know that the...

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own...