Kirsty Borthwick writes about a term spent living, praying and studying at the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland. How do you sum up a life-changing encounter in a few hundred words? And where do you begin when that encounter is with the depths and the complexity, the joys and pain of … Continue reading A Semester in a Laboratory for Ecumenical Life

Sion Hughes Carew recently spent Michaelmas Term on exchange with The Venerable English College in Rome. He offers a light-hearted and heart-warming reflection on his time in the Eternal City. My arrival in Rome was not entirely propitious. I discovered, upon emerging from the terminal into the baking Roman late-summer noontide, that the promised lift … Continue reading A Roman Exchange

As we begin a new year, Pippa White writes candidly about the deep frustrations of the last twelve months and her relationship with God. I’m not good at being angry, but I do seethe quite well. It is very much a weakness of mine – when whoever said ‘don’t drink poison and expect your enemy … Continue reading Seething at God