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The third time Jesus appears to his disciples after He was raised from the dead was on the shore of Lake Tiberias.

The luxury of Easter Bank Holiday Monday allows me to watch this year’s Oscar’s best foreign picture ‘Drive My Car’, adapted from a short story from Murakami Haruki.

Last week, on day 40 of the war in Ukraine, I found myself doing an interview on the radio about the Diocese in Europe’s appeal for humanitarian aid.

In Mark’s gospel chapter four, Jesus and his disciples leave one side of the lake and travel across the water to another shore.

Since the autumn of last year, the Connection has been ‘women only’ on a Wednesday.

One of the loveliest of the Psalms is 131, in which Israel is pictured as a weaned child resting in the arms of God, its mother.

Losing the ability to talk about religion is like losing a language.

I wonder if you like me enjoy listening to Desert Island Discs.

Lent as I knew it growing up offered a whole theology of self denial, giving up, suffering, with the promise that this harshness would . . . what?