Why does culture play an important role in worship and yet is also divisive? .... Muffin Talk recordings with Dr Joe Grayland on this topic Dr Joe Grayland has been our…
"Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances." (St Vincent de Paul) The volunteers of the Society…
Dr Joe Grayland, a New Zealand priest, introduces his book Horizons which is a series of essays on current issues in the Church that gather around synodality and its future,…
Numbers 21:4-9; Philippians 2:6-11; John 3:13-17 The Israelites had complained about their lives in Egypt and were happy to have escaped slavery. The first step towards freedom and a new…
Wisdom 9:13-18; Philemon 9-10,12-17; Luke 14:25-33 The Book of Wisdom challenges anybody who pretends to know what God meant to say or do. Jesus taught us to pray “Thy will…
Prof Thomas O'Loughlin has been a frequent guest on Muffin Talk. Here are a few snippets from longer interviews recorded with him over the years. He is originally from Dublin,…
Ecclesiasticus 3:19-21,30-31; Hebrews 12:18-19,22-24a; Luke 14:1,7-14 Ecclesiasticus, which was often called in Latin ‘Liber Ecclesiasticus’ (Church Book) or the Book of Sirach, is a book of guidelines and advice on…
Are we moving towards religious hybridity?Hybridity, a term that derives from biology and from mixing two species of plants, is a term that has been used for centuries. The discussions…
Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7,11-13; Luke 13:22-30 Isaiah, one of the major prophets, has just complained about the people he was sent to. They are not following God’s commandments, but God…