Feb
28
2017
It’s amazing how the ancient myths get it right. Consider the story of Icarus. He makes himself wax wings and flies too close to the sun, with the consequence he comes crashing down to earth again. This is exactly...
Feb
24
2017
I’m so looking forward to Lent and once more accompanying the Lord Jesus now dwelling in my heart through his passion and resurrection. What a drag prayer used to be when I was a monk and, so unexpectedly, how...
Feb
22
2017
One of the first iconic experiments in science was Newton’s shining light through a prism. He sported his oak at Cambridge (for it is not concordant with the honour of an ancient university to use so banal a phrase...
Feb
02
2017
We share 99% of our genes with chimpanzees. We are almost the apes that we are not. In six million years, perhaps as little as four million, in the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms, we evolved from...