A woman's take on the gospels

Feb 8, 20225 min read

The Dark Womb - God and Reproductive Loss

The Dark Womb - God and Reproductive Loss What ‘in the name of God’ can you say to someone who has had a miscarriage? Can you honestly...

Aug 6, 20211 min read

Transfiguring Touches

(Mt 17:11-8; Mk 9:2-8, Lk 9:28-36) A gentle touch on the hand Or a reassuring arm around the shoulder That’s how I imagine Jesus might...

Dec 24, 20202 min read

New Annunciations

I wonder What Mary thinks about the Nativity now And all that led up to it I wonder if she might want the Annunciation to have been a bit...

Dec 3, 20202 min read

God and Infertility

When we were struggling to start a family, I prayed a lot even though I wasn’t sure what the God I was praying to could do about it....

Dec 2, 20201 min read

Incarnation

Published by Vita Poetica, a Washington based Arts & Faith Collective, in their online Advent Calendar, in Dec 2020 . They were looking...

Dec 2, 20202 min read

A cold slap in the face about prayer...

'Doing' Lough Derg was a rite of passage in our house. The centuries old pilgrimage - sometimes referred to as the 'ironman of...

Dec 2, 20202 min read

All part of God’s plan...?

When I was seven, our teacher went off for a month to have an operation on her toes. The headmistress, a very gentle, quiet sister, ...

Aug 28, 20202 min read

What's with the gorse?

Published in The Furrow Journal, March 2018 like gorse a lot. This piece below explains why. It was published on International Women's...

May 29, 20201 min read

Easter - what does it mean on lockdown ?

How might Resurrection happen in our world and our lives today? This was a question a group of us reflected on as we 'gathered on zoom'...

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