Foundation

Here is one of my favourite poems by the poet Jane Kenyon (1947-1995). Twilight: After Haying Yes, long shadows go out from the bales; an...

There is a passage in John Updike’s 1996 novel In the Beauty of the Lilies in which a doubting Protestant minister, Clarence, meets a chu...

In my most recent reflection I explored the idea of “Romantic Christianity” as embodied in CS Lewis; in particular his treatment of “peak...

"It is time for a new reformation. It is time to find a way of following Christ that offers liberation and welcome rather than control," ...

I wrote in my last reflection that my Christian faith first started to be formed, in my late teens, by "peak experiences" of transcendenc...

For this week's reflection I would like to share with you Thirty Birds, a spoken word / musical collaboration by storyteller (and Foundat...

This week's reflection starts from a passage from Tears and Saints, a 1937 discussion of medieval mysticism by the Romanian philosopher E...

Now this reflection is (once again) personal to me, and I'm not offering it as a prescription for everyone or a description of what I thi...

In this lockdown, moving in churchy circles as I do, I have heard the name of Julian of Norwich invoked a few times. Julian was a contemp...

Here is one of my favourite poems by the Catholic poet Czeslaw Milosz. Gift A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hum...

The Greenbelt Festival of 2012 was a watershed for me. It followed a bleak, lonely period in my life, and I arrived full of grief. But as...

The following is an extract from the introduction to Monica Furlong's Merton, her biography of the monk Thomas Merton. "What did it mean ...

The following is an extract from The Cloud of Unknowing, an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter...

The following is an extract from the letters of Etty Hillesum, the contemplative who was murdered at Auchwitz. "Then suddenly it drops aw...

"Do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there w...

Awakened is a short piece of prose, or prose poem, by the late Polish Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz: “In advanced age, my health wor...

"I’m a nun and I’ve been social distancing for 29 years. Here are tips for staying home amid coronavirus fears."

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath - the most sacred of times?