I apologise for the mess the site is in at the moment. My hosting provider has just moved my account to a new server which seems both slower and prone to give me ‘out of memory’ errors if I activate more than a handful of plugins. I hope I hear back from them very soon …
Category Archives: Thoughts
‘Into My Arms, O Lord’
I just came across a beautiful post from Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance: the lyrics and video of a great song by Nick Cave. Nick Cave – Into My Arms I don’t believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him …
Pray-as-you-go
Speaking of Jesuits and podcasting, Peter Scally, SJ was here in Loyola Hall over the New Year — for a Jesuit meeting in preparation for next year’s General Congregation of our Order — and in spare moments recording anyone he could catch to use as voices for Pray-As-You-Go. The curious among you can listen to …
In Our Time: The Jesuits
Melvyn Bragg‘s Radio 4 programme In Our Time covers all sorts of interesting subjects in fascinating depth for a 45 minute show. Last week the subject was ‘Mars – the search for life on the Red Planet’ and in recent weeks the topics have been: Borges – the life and work of Argentina’s best loved …
Feeds Fixed
I noticed about an hour ago that this site’s feeds were not working and hadn’t been working since around December 20th. After checking the source and then deactivating all my plugins one by one I found the culprit and zapped the error. So… feeds should be working again … and I learned a little more …
Best Contemporary Theology Meme
A meme! A meme! No one’s ever hit me with a meme before. Kaloo kalay… Actually I hate the whole idea of memes — at least the philosophical idea that ideas are analogous to viruses. This on the other hand seems more like an invitation than an infection so I’ll pipe down. Crystal at Perspective …
Still Going…
Happy New Year! Contrary to the suspicion of several enquirers I haven’t given up writing here — I’ve just been relapsing a little with the CFS. My useful hours have been spent doing spiritual direction, reading (ever so s l o w l y ) a very good book by Wendy Farley, The Wounding and …
Nothing to Lose Sleep Over
This riddle is doing the rounds locally. Can you see the answer (without googling!)? I am: Greater than God; More evil than the devil; The rich want for me, Yet the poor have me; But if you eat me, you will die. Who am I?
Addictive Aquarium Game
If you’d like to waste a few hours here’s a fascinatingly addictive aquarium game to help you in your procrastination.
Eros, Attraction, Beauty, Desire
The “October” issue of The Way has just been published including my article on the Spiritual Exercises, “Id Quod Volo: The Erotic Grace of the Second Week”. I wrote briefly about the core idea a little while ago and if you are interested you can access the full version free, gratis, and for nothing at …