The original 'goodbye', dating from the 1570s, was godbwye – a contraction of the farewell phrase 'God be with ye'. Saying goodbye; a casual farewell, au revoir, a parting from person or persons one may or may not see again or a deathbed farewell? Personally, I...
The older I become, the less inclined I am to watch violent films. It's not the blood and guts: I'm fascinated by operations and dissections and I'm not queasy. I just don't want to watch fictionalised abuse and terror anymore. It's strange, contradictory even, when I...
This winter of 2022-23 has shaken our society and awakened us to a situation in which the lives and welfare of millions of our fellow citizens are seriously at risk. As one who professes to be a follower (not a worshiper) of Jesus of Nazareth, I hear constantly in my...
In 380 CE the Roman emperor Theodosius declared Christianity to be the official religion of the empire. This was some fourteen centuries before Christianity came to Latin America, but the decree established an alliance between throne and altar, or perhaps better,...
Woman, great is your faith In September's editorial, Dinah referred to the story about Jesus and the Canaanite woman, asking if this shows that Jesus was being racist. The story, Mark 7.24, has Jesus wanting rest, but he could not escape notice. A Gentile woman came...
A growing number of prophets have warned of the pressures that human activity is putting on the planet's systems and resources. Among them are Rachel Carson, Arnold Toynbee, Martin Rees, Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, locally Lloyd Geering and Dave Lowe, climate...
Download the full issue PDF Contents Articles The Body of Christ II: Death and Resurrection, Stephen Mitchell Irony on the Via Dolorosa, Caroline Pickard Our Wounded Body Politic, Frank Regan Religion and Politics in Latin America, Francis McDonagh The Idea of 'Race'...
Beside the Fourth Station of the Cross along the route ascribed to Jesus on his way to crucifixion is an Israeli check point. We sat in the cafe opposite and watched as young Palestinian males were routinely stopped and searched, often up against the wall behind, as...
Earth is congenial to usbecause we are all akin.Indigenous, we belong. Once seen as a goddess,the great mother,she is not beyond,but a modest planet,mortal like us,a natural body,here and now. Pregnant, she generatesher own kind of life,which, being gendered,jigs,...
'Down he went towards the beach and out into the sea. At daybreak he came out, knelt down and prayed. Then two otters bounded out of the water and tried to dry him with their fur.' from Bede's Life of Cuthbert Reading Bede, we tend to thinkIt must have been guilt...