While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

War

  • Forgiving and Politics

    Politics, forgiving and forgiveable Politics and forgiving! Forgiving in politics! Politics as forgiveness! Are not such ideas laughable, evidence of ignorant amateurism? Some resign themselves to sad realism: regretfully, they accept that forgiving and politics do not mix. Yet, despite its plausibility, this conclusion is wrong. The human task, the calling to live well, requires…

  • Monday morning

    Monday morning, I sit down to write this piece, only a few hours left before it is due. And very little idea – or perhaps too many ideas, probably most won’t do. A clue-question I will follow: What is my world this morning? ‘My world’ is the great created living world as it comes to…