Month: February 2014

In the history of biblical archaeology, as it developed during the Victorian era, no episode is more remarkable that the discovery made by George Smith of the British Museum in 1872. On a clay tablet from the royal library of Nineveh he deciphered a much older Mesopotamian version of the flood story familiar from the…

Dear Editor, As Church we are enriched enormously through the gift that is the leadership and inspiration of Pope Francis.  However, a gift is useless unless we accept, embrace and utilise it to the full.  In realising the fullness of that giftedness, we will be aware that Pope Francis himself points us to the giftedness…