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Rescued A little girl whose parents had died lived with her grandmother and slept in an upstairs bedroom. One night there was a fire in the house and the grandmother perished while trying to rescue the child. The fire spread quickly, and the first floor of the house was soon engulfed in flames. Neighbours called […]

One of the oldest spiritual injunctions is, ‘Know yourself.’ It is meant to push people down a path of self-discovery. Although this search may begin with social ambitions and intimate relationships, eventually it will turn inward. The ones who want to know themselves will set up a watching and listening post in the centre of […]

Something is lost when the spiritual identity of ‘salt’ and ‘light’ is translated into the activity of doing good works. We often harbour a pedestrian notion of goodness. Doing ‘good’ is a wooden application of principle to unruly situations. We seldom think of it as entailing creative engagement with the wily world. Yet the people […]

Jesus sees the negative circumstances that surround and pervade people – the poverty that goes so deep it crushes the spirit and reduces people to a constant state of mourning. In this situation, they are meek, not becoming violent and vengeful, but hungering and thirsting for more equitable treatments, more just allocation of resources. These […]

Martin Luther asked, “What drives Christ?” Christ is only too willing to tell us, and so we continue to go back to his story to learn from him, to make our own the Spirit that drives him. I heard about a woman who was the director of a drug rehabilitation centre. One day a tall, […]