Last Sunday, we were trying to peek into the mystery of the Holy Trinity and – in order to do so – we had to resort to the language of metaphors, symbols and comparisons. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether my attempts were successful or not. But the need to use some tactile, tangible imagery proved it obvious…

It took an apple (the fruit, not the electronic device) and an inquisitive mind to “discover” a force to which we all owe our existence. According to legend, Sir Isaac Newton was enlightened by an apple falling from a tree on his head; most historians dismiss this, but he was certainly curious about why apples always fall straight to the…

The coronation of King Charles a couple of weeks ago turned out to be quite controversial and even divisive. One of many arguments against it was whether such an ancient Christian ritual makes any sense in 21st-century Britain, a place so diverse on the one hand and increasingly irreligious on the other that it can hardly be called a Christian…

A mini-drama at the school gate on the first-timers’ first school day: a sense of abandonment, tears and cries or even tantrums. A tight hug, some consoling words and assurances of coming back in no time usually calm things down. And that’s just the parents… Everyone’s life is marked by milestones; moments or events that significantly change life in one…

Once I visited a baroque church in Poland where my attention was drawn to a picture of the Holy Trinity on the wall.  God the Father was shown as an elderly, majestic man with a full white beard and, on his head, a triple crown resembling the one used by popes before Paul VI. Every time I looked at that…