Mission
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Twenty-five years of freedom, a lifetime of memory
Lost parents, missing neighbours and survivors of torture shape a young nation whose people radiate peace and a glimpse of reconciliation between two nations bound by painful history.
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The bishop isn’t the hall’s most important person
The Church pours energy into leadership. Its future may rest with quieter people whose influence is real but hard to measure.
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The Church — a test of Christ’s compassion
Compassion takes shape in ordinary human lives, in small acts of presence that make divine love something people can touch.
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The sari that speaks
Choosing Indian dress over European habits, Mother Teresa modeled a form of inculturation the Church would only later embrace. The modest garment worn by street cleaners became a worldwide emblem of compassion, poverty and spiritual commitment.
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The little man on the cross!
Meaning and comprehension aren’t the same thing, and sacred spaces may work on people long before belief does.
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Reconciliation without truth is enforced forgetting
Real reconciliation requires truth-telling, repentance and accountability, not pressure on victims to move on quickly.
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Holiness is wholeness for modern life
Inner character and outward commitments like solidarity, the common good and care for creation work together, not separately.
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Forming leaders in a missionary church
Synodality asks how the church should act together, but formation for the leaders who must live it out remains an afterthought.
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Parish mergers not enough to save a shrinking church
Consolidating parishes by staffing numbers addresses the symptoms, but real renewal asks something deeper of communities facing decline.
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When parishes pick maintenance over mission
Reflection meetings reveal real comfort with stewardship and clear reluctance toward mission, a pattern that could spell trouble across post-Christian Britain.
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