Caring for Creation

📖 (7 min. read) In the Beginning… until God shall be all in all

Introduction Being given ‘Dominion’ as God’s localised ‘Image’ usually referred to the role of Royalty. The word was used of Solomon. The...

📖(2 min. read)A Letter from the Authors of Genesis

How do we read scripture? Every culture has its creation myth – that recounts more about why than how. This short, imagined letter...

📖(3 min. read) Food and Faith:Launch of ‘Year of Food’, 2012

In 2012 Pope Benedict inaugurated a Year of Faith to celebrate the half century since the beginning of the Second Vatican Council. In the...

📖(4 min. read)Food and Faith

A short reflection on perspectives that undermine a true and deeper understanding of our Eucharistic commitment to share our resources...

📖(24 min. read) Creation Theology: Why? and What?

Tom tackles the big questions of developing a relevant theology in an environmentally and ecologically aware age. He identifies three...

📖(16 min. read) Live Simply

2007 Talk given to Live Simply Conference at Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre Living simply, sustainably and in solidarity at the...

📖(6 min. read) Creation Groans

Tom discusses the urgent need for all to hear God's call to live simply, sustainably and in solidarity at all levels of live: domestic,...

Audio: A theological reading of Genesis 1 & 2

A theological reading of the Creation story. How our understanding of the intentions of the authors and the way they compiled Genesis...

Human Life as Part of Creation

Tom argues that many of us grew up in a church where nature was static, a backdrop to our lives. This ignores our real Catholic tradition...

📖(2 min. read) Creation Story, A Litany

Our Creation Story 18 billion years In the beginning God said: Let matter and energy be. And all that now is expanded from its tiny...