Prayer is often understood as asking for things, but in the Gospels it appears as something quite different. It is not a means of control, but a moment of release — a stepping back from the self and a return to what is real. In prayer, one lets go, sees more clearly, and, however briefly, is set in the right direction.
Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters.
A reflective exploration of why humans are both aggressive and endlessly self-questioning. Drawing on evolutionary inheritance, mythic imagination, and the possibility of ancient genetic engineering, this piece asks what it means to be a species that not only acts, but wonders why it acts.
A poem and reflection on nature, solitude, and le fer dans l’âme — the iron in the soul. A meditation on how lives unfold without hierarchy, and how presence allows us to carry our inner weight with dignity.
A reflection on the inner stillness that frees us from self-rejection and restores our capacity to love. Drawing on Jesus’ teaching of the Shema and contrasting the Western vision of wholeness with the Zen ideal of self-effacement, this meditation explores awareness as a natural state — a flight of the spirit in peace and light.
The lotus rises pure from the mud, uniting science and symbol, matter and mind. This reflection explores how the flower’s ancient imagery bridges the two magisteria of human understanding — the measurable and the mysterious.
Meditation does not mean emptying the mind. It means clearing space to think — a discipline of clarity that the Western tradition saw as sacred reasoning, not blankness.
For two millennia, Christianity offered Western civilisation a moral framework that gave meaning to suffering—but also served to stabilise power. From Constantine to empire, sacred symbols were used to sanctify authority, even as reformers tried to reclaim the gospel’s moral core. The ruins of Santa María en Cameros, where a priest once ruled from his hilltop church, stand as a parable of conscience outlasting control. To awaken from the dream is not to reject faith, but to see through it—to recover compassion, justice, and inner truth without the myths that once bound them to power.