The Hearth of Mopsus

Although I am posting here less these days, it's still the only place I have to disseminate images of the blessed Great-Martyr Catherine...

A longstanding member of the church dies before their time after a short illness. There is tension in the relationships involved, although a...

Being overtaken by black moods and in fact talking about them is nothing new for me or this blog, but I have some revised or additional thin...

Once we got beyond the basics, the conversation with the woman who’s joined the team of one of our regular events went in an unexpected dire...

A few weeks ago we touched on Will Self’s reasons for going to church, and this morning on the magic wireless journalist Sara Wheeler decid...

My spiritual reading at the moment is Catherine de Hueck Doherty's Poustinia  from 1977, an examination of the Orthodox Christian concep...

We prayed for Sheila - of course we did for such a loved member of the church, hoping that somehow the fast-developing cancer had been caugh...