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....

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...

"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...

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

"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?