Keeping painful memories alive
Most of us living on this planet today have no living memory of the Holocaust. Yet it is a dark chapter of the human story all of us need to remember. Frankly we’d prefer not to have to think about…
The ‘strange lordship’ of Jesus
Journalists were quick to recognise the irony of the bizarre tragedy of the Costa Concordia on this centennial year of the Titanic sinking. Human hubris and flagrant disregard of caution in the pursuit of pleasure has thrust a screaming metaphor…
Europe, the hopeless case?
weekly word: Each time we gather as the Hope for Europe Round Table, we remind ourselves why. This time, over the past two days, that question was more pressing. If we can believe the media these days, Europe really is…
Belshazzar’s feast
Last Friday was Epiphany, the day on the Church calendar marking the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus, and thus the revelation of the Christ to the Gentiles. A good day therefore for an ‘epiphany’–a revelation–about the new…
And He shall reign for ever!
George Frederick Handel could never have dreamed that his ‘Messiah’ would become a worldwide phenomenon, performed in thousands of concert halls, churches and auditoriums every Christmas, and enjoyed by millions more via radio, television and countless recordings. Europe may well…
