We are almost into the season of Advent, the beginning of the Christian year. At All Saints' Benhilton the church has been prepared, and...

If you are fed up with the shallow onslaught against 'complementarianism' that comes from secular philosophers and some 'liberal...

  The Reverend Dr John Stott (1921–2011) was sometimes known as “the evangelical pope.” A prolific author from his days as Rector of All Sou...

  Here are two more passages from Carlo Carretto's  God of the Impossible.  They emphasise the Christian life as a way of seeing things,...

Dear friends, I am so glad that many of you visit my blog each day. I know that sometimes you are so busy that the best you can do is to rea...

  These snippets are typical of Carlo Carretto at his best. Simple, yet truly profound. ON PERSONAL PRAYER Prayer is not so much a matter of...

  Carlo Carretto (1910–1988) was an Italian spiritual writer inspired by Charles de Foucauld and others who have sought God in simplicity an...

Here is a wonderful passage from Chapter 8 of  Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer  by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) published in 1964, a year af...

  Today the Church honours a remarkable woman, Edith Stein, S. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who was killed in 1942 at Auschwitz. The follo...

- adapted from an article by Fr John Flader in the Catholic Leader  (Brisbane, Australia) 9 June 2023 Surprising as it may sound, the oldest...

Eastertide at All Saints' Benhilton (click on the photo - twice - to enlarge it) During this last week one of my friends said to me, ...

Here is  an excellent article  from Alice Linsley’s ‘The Bible and Anthropology’ blog about the background to this day, and the meaning of t...