It’s been just over a week since we got back from making the spiritual exercises during our long retreat and us first years are now away again doing our short experiments.
I have to admit that, even in advancing middle age, I still notice when I get less ice-cream than the person next to me. Paul O'Reilly SJ reflects on 'offfering it up'.
An increasingly important idea in modern Christian communication is that of religious inculturation, the challenge of making biblical topics and themes meaningful and appealing within differing human cultures.
In speaking of the way we should think about security for the future, Jesus used a curious example - a man who cheated his employer. Luke 16.1-8 But it's the astuteness, not the dishonesty of the steward we are to imitate. Wise people look to the future.
Some background to the the will of Helena Wintour, which is currently on loan to the exhibition Plots and Spangles: the Embroidered Vestments of Helena Wintour at Auckland Castle.