Articles by: Joanna Thyer

Listening to the wisdom of the desert

Lent can be a profound time to go within ourselves to experience our own personal deserts and be still with God, writes Joanna Thyer.

Posted on: February 21, 2018

About death and dying

One of the biggest gifts we can give one another is to honour and validate someone’s expression of suffering, be it physical, spiritual, emotional or a combination, and not judge...

Posted on: September 20, 2016

Letting go of attachments

Letting go of attachments

The challenge of Lent is to go deeper into our own hearts despite the distractions, to go beyond the religious differences and the pettiness of the world around us, and...

Posted on: February 16, 2016

What do Pope Francis, Thomas Merton and Graham Greene have in common?

What do Pope Francis, Thomas Merton and Graham Greene have in common?

Like Pope Francis, Merton and Greene were individuals whose complexity equipped them to address the often contradictory world we live in, in order to find God in it, writes Joanna...

Posted on: November 17, 2015