Tenth Sunday* after Pentecost

‘Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it… Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there [...]

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Third Sunday in Easter

‘[F]or many years I looked at life like a case at law, a series of proofs. When you’re young you prove how brave you are, or smart; then, what a good lover; then a good father; finally, how wise, or powerful… But underlying it all, I see now, there was a presumption. That I was [...]

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Fifth Sunday in Lent

‘Their injunctions are like this. “Let no one educated, no one wise, no one sensible draw near. For these abilities are thought by us to be evils. But as for anyone ignorant, anyone stupid, anyone uneducated, anyone who is a child, let him come boldly.” By the fact that they themselves admit that these people [...]

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