A beautiful, silent, transparent state would arrive from somewhere; I presumed this was meditation. Now, nothing comes except a racing mind. What happened?” You became aware of the unknown.

“How big is a person’s soul?” asks her friend. In “The Tree,” a storm-tossed meditation on grief and loss, it is very big, indeed. Set in the parched farmlands of Australia, and starring ...

In this meditation for Good Friday, Bishop Helen-Ann reflects on the potential of trees to bear witness to pain, strength and new life. Readings from the Dream of the Rood are woven together with ...

the tree that became the cross of Jesus. In this meditation for Good Friday, the Bishop of Newcastle, the Rt Rev Helen-Ann Hartley, revisits the place of the cross within the cosmic drama of ...