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‘Let him who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.’ (John 8). One thing that stood out during our weekend conference on the Holy Land was Ilse Wellershof-Schuur’s ability to embrace multiple viewpoints. She helped us to see that this is the only way we can imagine a future in the troubled

The valley of the shadow… The Lord – who speaks the ‘I’ within me – He is my shepherd.I shall lack nothing.He lets me rest on green pastures;He leads me to the stream of life;He restores my soul.He lets me walk on the path of truthfulnessin the all-wielding power of his ‘I’.And – though I

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The Sign of Jonah When the crowds were increasing, Jesus said: ‘This generation is alienated from the spirit; it seeks for a sign of the spirit, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of

Transfiguration: an imagination .. and from the altar there flowed golden ribbons that wound round about us and connected us: the stranger in his dull overcoat; the old lady counting her money for the collection; my best friend with whom I was quarrelling. All were joined in a great web of gold. And gradually I

Temptation God asks us to live [the] new life in the circumstances of everyday life, contradicted by turmoil, opposition, and anxieties of all kinds. These seem to persecute us because we feel drawn to be alone to relish that silence. But we need to be confronted by the vicissitudes of daily life. The alternation between