Brigid's mantle

There is a genre of poetry and prose that travels across the blogosphere known as 'small stones'. A few lines of mindfulness that c...

There are many characters in the story of the Nativity but one that we rarely hear of is the Fourth Shepherd. When the angel...

  The world will end today   It will end in hospital wards in speeding cars in shop doorways in dark alleys   It will en...

When you are nothing but a number When there is no room When you hear only 'no' And the road winds through  a unknown la...

Teach me to do your will,   for you are my God. Give me back my heart of stone, so I may love no more. ...

'All who knew her called her Mother' - Bede Hilda was born in 614 into the Deiran royal household in bloody and fractious...

  'When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery...