I would love to know where this woman at the well ended up. As we become familiar with the Gospel stories it is natural that we should be interested in what the characters did and how they lived for the rest of their lives. This is especially so for the Samaritan woman, because this is the longest conversation that Jesus has with any one person in the Gospels. That is not to say, though, that it was a long conversation. Perhaps they only spoke for a few minutes. But in that e

The mystery of the transfiguration is something I have always liked to meditate on. This episode in Jesus' life draws us into the secret life of Christ. Sometimes it is a privilege to be told a secret. We feel that we can be trusted and that we are in some way perhaps esteemed in that person's opinion. Here today in our gospel reading Jesus tells us a secret about himself.   The transfiguration conveys to us two particular aspects of Christ's life, aspects that are integral t

Temptation works on us because there is truth in it.  Temptation doesn't work for us because there is not enough truth in it.  There is, in temptation, a lie which has been put alongside the truth, to make it plausible and desirable.  We’ll accept the lie if we only see the truth it’s attached to.  So, if we separate out the truth from the lie in any idea we have, then we shall discover the temptation and more often avoid sin. To see how this works in practice, we can take th