Lectio Divina

I like that. The world as the theatre of human history, that is, the world as the place where God and people meet and live together.

When the angel left Mary, the challenges and problems of this new era of her life had just begun.

Unbridled ambition is problematic and resentment is exhausting. Love, generosity and forgiveness really is foundational,

Rote learning was a norm in my primary school days, repetition of the times tables, two times two equals four, three times two

. The prevailing sense in the Old Testament was that God lived in the heavens (above). Therefore mountain-tops (where heaven and earth seem to intersect) were a logical place of encounter with the divine. We see this in Moses, the holy Old Testament leader of people,...