The Son of Mañana?

READING THROUGH Mark’s Gospel recently for a guys’ group I am part of, I was struck by how often the writer uses the word “immediately”—more than…

An awkward Easter

I’M HOPING THAT lots of first-time and once-in-a-blue-moon churchgoers who turn out for services this Easter Sunday are—despite regular attendees’ best efforts to make them feel…

Arthur’s Law

IT’S ACCEPTED WISDOM, thanks to the recovery community, that we are as sick as our secrets. But I learned from Arthur the gnome that, sometimes, what…

The gift of ears

THE STORY OF the Day of Pentecost has prompted much division over one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and whether it is for today:…