A new year and a new beginning. It’s not possible of course to have an old beginning. All beginnings are the start of something new and a new year give us the opportunity to start over. I suppose that’s what new year resolutions are all about – a determination to be better, to do better, […]
Recently there was a series of television programmes called Retreat. Each of them was a day in the life of a monk or community in one of three Benedictine Monasteries – Belmont, Downside and Pluscarden. What was unusual about the programmes was that there was no dialogue and no commentary though occasionally there was a
I read an interesting article on the BBC website this week. It reported that a court in India has declared the river Ganges a legal “person” in an effort to save it from pollution. Nor is the Ganges the only natural phenomenon to receive this designation. The Yamuna river, glaciers, including Gangotri and Yamunotri (where
