Could there be a distinctly Magdalene Christianity? And is it relevant today? To answer these questions, I felt the need first to go back...

Notre-Dame de Chartres, the glorious Gothic cathedral of the provincial town south-west of Paris is dedicated to Mary the mother of...

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Jeremy Bentham philosopher This musing was...

Stepping out along the way Stephen and I meant to start our journey in Ireland but close to the departure date I fell off a ladder and...

Who were the Celts? Did their spirit endure? There was a quest underlying my journey through Europe in 2015, born from my attraction to...

There are two very different ways of working with colour. For the ‘in’ approach I chose the popular phenomenon of adult colouring books....

I find that spiritual knowledge and understanding sits somewhere near the heart of anything I write, including my biography of Sheila...

When hard facts of history become personal symbols of initiation: My hunch is that the figure of Mary Magdalene and her life story plays...

This extraordinary woman is at the heart of Marriages of the Magdalene. Yet she was not the inspiration behind my novel – at least not at...

Surfing reminds me of a dance, a pas de deux with the ocean. I think that’s why I reacted when I read that a super modern pool with...