“How lukewarm and negligent we are! We lose our original fervor very quickly and we even become weary of life from laziness! [Don’t] you, who have seen so many examples of the devout, fall asleep in the pursuit of virtue!” (“The Imitation of Christ”, Thomas a Kempis, translated by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton, Book One, Chapter 18).

“I know what you have done, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. But since you are lukewarm and not hot or cold, I’m going to spit you out of my mouth” (Revelation 3:15-16 God’s Word).

Okay, so I stand corrected. Without wanting to sound indiscreet, something that happens in public washrooms has bugged me.

Now, we don’t talk about such things, and that’s the problem it turns out. Read more…

It troubles me that so many people do not have a strong, real, personal sense of the presence of God within them and around them. And I wonder why?

But as I was driving to work this morning at 5 o’clock this insight came. Read more…

Well, Spring has aged two days. Last night it snowed enough to cover the ground and the car and the roads. So I went out to look at the snowdrops. Read more…

“All good religious teaching … is basically a summons to action. Yet instead of being taught to act creatively upon them, many modern Christians feel it is more important to ‘believe’ them,” writes Karen Armstrong. Read more…