Last week a group of parishioners met following the liturgy to review the many details involved in keeping Holy Week at St George’s. The conversation eventually turned to Tabitha the…
Bishop Anthony Bloom tells the story of a young Russian woman and her children whose small town was caught up in the convulsions of the Russian revolution in the early…
Covetousness, avarice – wanting things that belong to others, or things which do not rightfully belong to us; an inordinate desire for worldly things. This sin is focused on the…
The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, resulted in more military deaths than all of America’s subsequent engagements combined. Some 620 000 soldiers died – approximately one of…
Of all the Seven Deadly Sins, Sloth appears at first glance to be the odd one out. Like the animal that bears its name, it seems somehow to hang the…
Historians often note that one of the most significant differences between earlier ages and our own is the extent to which the odours of life in community are nowadays largely…
The Scriptures conceive of Christian community in numerous ways. They teach that we are members of the Body of Christ, for example, each of us working together for the sake…
References to dogs are ubiquitous in the Scriptures. In the Old Testament alone, for example, the enemies of the People of Israel are often called “dogs”; if one is foolish…
The brilliant French philosopher Simone Weil died in 1943. She was just thirty-four years old when the combined effects of tuberculosis and an extraordinarily ascetic diet ended her life. When…
In her novel Where the Air is Sweet, Tasneem Jamal tells the story of three generations of an East African family forced to flee their home country for Canada. The…