From the Tradition: Learning from the Beguines
A few years ago while I was on holiday, a friend put before me an article and encouraged me to read it. It was a...
A few years ago while I was on holiday, a friend put before me an article and encouraged me to read it. It was a...
Rachel Kitchens is on staff at Venn Foundation, offering Spiritual Direction on the Residential Fellowship, and teaching on Summer Conference. She grew up in Atlanta,...
The driver of the white convertible rests one arm casually on the steering wheel. He has long hair and is wearing bracelets. Next to him...
“Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.” (Job 12:7) My office window overlooks a green lawn, which runs for perhaps ten metres...
This feels like date night. Or, as the case may be, date late afternoon—lockdown edition. With an eagerness that belies the nature of our trip,...
From the Tradition is a new regular column in Common Ground. Here, we’ll consider an element drawn from the witness of the Church through time...
I was five when Mount Ruapehu erupted in 1996. It let fly with a series of spectacular gas explosions, heaving hot ash into the sky...
Some years ago I sought a group of young people who lived almost a century ago. One intrigued me in particular, and I tracked him...
Introduction In 1817, Percy Shelley penned his poem, “Ozymandias,” a meditation on the greatness of human work that is as pointed as it is brief. The...
This…is a humble offering to Him.An attempt to say “THANK YOU GOD” through our work,even as we do in our hearts and with our tongues.May...