Month: January 2022

  • Dismal Stories

    Dismal Stories

    There was a time when people who delivered “dismal stories” were called “Jeremiahs”, Jeremiah being the Old Testament prophet most given to predictions of unrelieved gloom and disaster. But Jeremiah’s tragedy, like that of Cassandra in Greek mythology, was that he was not believed even though he was right…

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  • Reflecting on the New Year, 2022

    Reflecting on the New Year, 2022

    One of the questions I’ve been asking myself is how we live ‘the now’ at this liminal period of the New Year when we’re spending so much time looking both forwards and backwards. What spiritual work keeps us in the present, in the now, at a time when so much around us propels us forward,…

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  • A Personal Take on New Year Resolutions

    A Personal Take on New Year Resolutions

    I wonder how many of us have ever made New Year resolutions – I have!

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