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By Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD I’ve been sitting with John’s version of the resurrection story for a few days now, in a stance of lectio divina as I accompanied Jesus’ friends in the few brief
By Archbishop Linda Nicholls Last Sunday (April 26th) was Good Shepherd Sunday. The Gospel and Psalm for that day invited us to consider the voice of the shepherd who knows the sheep and calls them
By Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” Jesus came to offer us abundant life – not just life, but life I abundance, overflowing with beauty and
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD Thomas needs to be shown that his new sharing of the Way of Love will come from an astonishing, numinous moment – the bodily resurrection of Jesus.
By Archbishop Linda Nicholls One evening while I was a teacher at a school in the Indian Himalayas, I was at Bible study with about ten other teachers. We were seated in a living room
By Archbishop Linda Nicholls Although I have never been in one I have seen videos of avalanches. A wall of snow or ice or mud is suddenly triggered. The powerful force of gravity sends it
By Archbishop Linda Nicholls The older I get the simpler the gospel becomes. The things that seemed so important about living as a Christian and trying to get it ‘right’ become less significant. The arguments
By Archbishop Linda Nicholls We all want a Saviour! We want someone to solve our problems; fix what is wrong in the world; heal our wounds; and make us feel ‘good’ again – especially in
By The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922), ‘The Blind Man at the Pool of Siloam’, 1879 In our Gospel we read about healing and sight and hearing. There are differences
By Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD There are some words associated with Lent in our western tradition that I can’t find in any Bible translation or concordance. Chocolate. Diet. Exercise. Smoking. Drugs. Alcohol. Apple. Chocolate. Adam