There's something awfully final about a grave or a tomb.  When the tomb of Jesus was sealed with a big round stone, that stone must have seemed like a cosmic...

"The joy of the Gospel fills the hearts and the lives of those who encounter Jesus": with these words, Pope Francis begins his Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel,...

At Christmas, the words of the angel have echoed down through the ages: "Glory to God in the highest heaven and peace on earth to those whom he loves". They echo...

The Bible is revolutionary in its understanding of the relationship between God and the human being.  In answer to the question, "Why did God create the human being?" the standard...

In these final weeks of the Year of Grace and Faith, a journey which began at Pentecost last year, I find myself thinking of doors.  Older Australians sometimes speak of...

At Pentecost, the party is finally over.  The fifty days of the Easter festival come to an end.  The word "Pentecost" in Greek means "fifty days" to mark the seven...

In this part of the world, we've recently had rain enough to last a lifetime, to say nothing of floods yet again.  Water is life, but too much is death;...

Dear brothers and sisters, In the end, the Bible is a gloriously jubilant book.  But it doesn't begin that way, because it's also a grimly realistic book.  Its pages are...

In the birth of Jesus we see a God who is no indistinct and distant deity, nor a name we give to some vague human instinct. The real God has...

The beginning of Advent finds us deep in the time when the Year of Grace and the Year of Faith overlap. This will be so until Pentecost next year when...