Dear All, I recall a particular day in another country when I was the only English-speaking person in a small space full of excited locals. They were pretty much as white as I, but I could not relate to their excitement or take part in it. It was very unsettling to be an outsider

Dear All, Because there is no reason to fear death, there is no risk too large, no threat too imminent and no forgiveness to unthinkable. Charity and courage, then, are the hallmarks of our lives. And all of this because of the dying of the Son of God upon the cross!

Dear All, The ‘image of God’ in humanity is humanity’s destination for eternal life. That destination was not changed by Eve and Adam’s decision to trust the snake rather than God, but it became complicated by humanity’s new-found freedom to second guess the Creator

Dear All, Christian anthropology (a faith-based understanding of human nature) always begins with the fact that humans are creatures created in the image and likeness of God. We feel pretty secure in our understanding of ‘creature-liness’;

Dear All, Someone famous once wrote about the skull beneath the skin. I suppose that that is just a more sober version of Beauty is only skin deep. And both of those are but vernacular echoes of the Church’s reminder that you are dust and will return to dust.