‘Hineni, Hineni, I’m ready my Lord’

Leonard Cohen’s final album,’You want it darker’ was released on his 82nd birthday shortly before his death last year. The title song contains the refrain, ‘Hineni, Hineni, I’m ready my Lord’. It is a dark song, but the Hebrew words, ‘Hineni, Hineni’ aren’t dark…

James Martin ‘In Good Company:

The fast track from the corporate world to poverty, chastity and obedience’ *

Humpty Trumpty and the Call to be a Loser

So, it happened. And Donald Trump is the President of the United States. His inaugural…

How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.

Watching television this Christmas I saw James May reassemble his 1971 Flying Scotsman Hornby model train set. He was completely absorbed in his task despite the tight configuration of television cameras around his table. Quietly chatting to…

When it comes to American Presidents, you can’t trump Lincoln

It’s a bit hard to know where to start reflecting on the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. The internet is not short of commentary and analysis on how we got here, what it means and…

Who am I? Whose am I?

2016 was a pretty dramatic year one way or another, and who knows what is in store for us in 2017. Whatever comes we know there will be good and bad, loss and gain, hope and despair. There will be challenges and opportunities and there will always be the questions that humans have asked…

Ain’t it Grand, when you’re living in La La Land