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A Mystery To Be Lived

by | Jun 1, 2013 | sophia

‘This story is much greater than we know and to despair (even if it is romanticised and made pretty with clever words) is to sulk, to sit on the fence, and to refuse the obvious: that life is “a mystery to be lived rather than a problem to be...

Watch and Pray

by | May 24, 2013 | sophia

  Throughout history, on the eve of a new adventure or at the end of an old one, great temptations and great disasters frequently happen. Jesus, for example, having just been baptised, found himself thrust into a mad stream of temptations and—just prior to the...

Conversationally Deaf

by | Mar 2, 2013 | sophia

We are mentored by our favourite screen faces, which do everything so loudly, cleverly and colourfully that we lose our ability to hear, and become conversationally deaf. You notice it when you have stumbled on a great idea and try telling someone about it but within...

Dangerous Voice #3: Anger

by | Jan 19, 2013 | sophia

There is nothing a proud person hates more than someone else’s pride, and there is nothing an angry person hates more than someone else’s anger. That’s probably why a veiled (but barbed) comment, from a legalistic church member will provoke a violent and openly angry...

It’s Only Natural

by | Jan 17, 2013 | sophia

‘The knowledge of a thing is not one of the things parts. In this sense something beyond nature operates whenever we reason … the distinction is not between mind and matter, or body and soul, but between reason and the whole mass of non-rational events. At...