There is a particular weariness that settles in the bones when a person has lived too long around performance. Not the joyful kind of performance that draws a wide smile and fills the heart like children on a stage, a choir practising for a feast day, the brave delight of trying something new. I meanContinue reading “Stone Pillows and Straight Answers”
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The Arithmetic of a Vow
As I begin a new Pilates Challenge and Lent is looming I was reflecting on goal-setting. It can be so hard to stick to the goals we set. Most of us do not fail at goals because we are lazy. We fail because we are overexposed. Modern life has us living like houses with everyContinue reading “The Arithmetic of a Vow”
New Beginnings
The start of the year (especially a school year) begins with many aspirations, dreams and intentions. On the surface a new year is clean. It is the kind of beginning you can schedule: new diary, new term, new haircut, new uniform, new shoes that still squeak a little. But real beginnings are seldom neat. TheyContinue reading “New Beginnings”
The Shape of Blessing – A reflection on the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew (5:1-12)
The Beatitudes can sound like soft words for a hard world. Blessed are the poor? The mourning? The meek? They’re not the ones we usually call successful. They’re not trending. They don’t win. And yet Jesus names them blessed. This blessing isn’t sentiment. It’s not about reward, or being good enough, or holding it allContinue reading “The Shape of Blessing – A reflection on the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew (5:1-12)”
Through the glass we see
There’s a quiet truth about the soul that we often forget in the noise of our days: what we take in becomes what we see. The images we scroll past, the stories we repeat, the voices that fill our feed: all of them polish or cloud the lens through which we look at the world.Continue reading “Through the glass we see”
The Ugly Truth
We talk about the pursuit of Truth, of Veritas. When will we admit that Truth rarely comes dressed for dinner parties? It does not arrive ribbon-tied, polished, or polite. Think instead of Jesus on the cross: disfigured, broken, utterly human. Not a sight we would post on our Instagram feed or even on Facebook. AndContinue reading “The Ugly Truth”
We all want heaven. What are we doing about it?
Aquinas says our true end is happiness in God and that charity gives shape to every other virtue. If that’s true, then everyday life becomes deeply theological: how we answer emails, correct a misunderstanding, or hold a boundary is either training our hearts for heaven or dragging them away. Personal formation is not an add-on;Continue reading “We all want heaven. What are we doing about it?”
Looking for the dead
We begin at the tomb—don’t we always? Early in the morning, like Mary Magdalene, or hiding behind closed doors like Thomas. We want proof. A body. Something cold and sealed and heavy with certainty. We want to lay hands on what’s no longer alive because, frankly, it’s easier to believe in death than in resurrection.Continue reading “Looking for the dead”
Strength of mind and will
It’s easy to mistake strength for survival. To think that getting through something — intact, upright, still functioning — is enough. And sometimes it is. Christian strength, the kind we don’t always talk about, is not just about endurance. It’s about being formed. It’s about will and mind working together to become more than whatContinue reading “Strength of mind and will”
Our Common Song
One of the great ironies of being human is that the very thing that makes us so visibly different — our biology — is also what ultimately renders us equal.When we think about human diversity, we often start with what we can see: skin colour, height, hair texture, the shape of our eyes, the tiltContinue reading “Our Common Song”
The Female Theologian 