Who or what is the Holy Spirit?
Who or what exactly is the Holy Spirit? Pentecost reflections from awrard-winning author Kate Nicholas
Faith, Life and Cancer
Author, broadcaster and cancer survivor Kate Nicholas's reflections on faith, life and cancer.
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What if the cross had been empty?
Holy week reflections. I don’t know about you but I always find the experience of Holy Week so intense. It’s such a pivotal point in the history of mankind, when our destiny could have taken a very different route. Which is why on Good Friday as I prayed my way through the three hours that Christ spent on the cross, I found myself pondering some really big questions. For example, when exactly did…
Describing The Ineffable
How do you describe an experience of the divine which goes beyond words — the ineffable God who reaches into the very depths of our soul? This was the conundrum that I was faced with when writing my latest book To The Ocean Floor: a second cancer journey and gateway to a profound connection with God. In 2021, after seven glorious years in remission from stage IV breast cancer, a routine mammogram…
Christmas wishes and reflections
I am having a rather unusual Christmas, wrapped up in bed in north Bucks nursing a bad seasonal lurgy while my husband and kids eat Christmas lunch with my sister and her family in London. It isn't how I would choose to spend Christmas but, ironically, I feel more blessed this year than many others. This morning I was woken by my two grown up kids (who still get a stocking each year) and later…
The Beauty of Autumn
Making the most of the seasons of our lives Having turned sixty this year, I am now beginning to face up to the fact that the spring of my youth well and truly gone and that I am graduating from the summer season of middle age into what might be called the ‘autumn’ of my life. The passing of the seasons is a reality that not many of us relish, but I am slowly coming to realise that there is great…
To The Ocean Floor
A second cancer journey and a gateway to a profound encounter with God After a couple of months of radio silence, I am delighted to tell you that my latest book To the Ocean Floor is about to hit the bookshops. This new book tells the story of my second cancer and how it became a gateway to a profound encounter and connection with God. When I was first diagnosed with advanced breast cancer nine…
The Hidden Beauty of Creation
I recently spent a wonderful afternoon roaming around the geology section of the Natural History Museum in London. If you haven’t been to this museum, I really recommend a trip to this extraordinary venue. I particularly love the escalator which ascends to the upper floors through a sculpture of the earth, taking visitors up through the mantle and the core until you emerge on the other side of the…
Thank You For the Music
I have just had an experience that almost defies description. When asked to explain what exactly Abba Voyage is like, Bjorn Ulvaeus said that you just have to see it. I would agree. This weekend, thanks to my darling sister who bought tickets for my 60 th birthday, I experienced nostalgia, wonder and joy as I watched the singers that I so loved in my teenage years perform as they did in the 1970s,…
The Meaning of the Moment
Have you bought or saved anything to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III? I must admit my family have been a bit bah humbug about the whole thing. My husband is Australian and has a rather ambivalent attitude towards the monarchy and this seems to have infected the family. However, I have been determined to join in with the celebrations - including a picturesque tea party on our village…
Man of Sorrows: Good Friday Reflections
How do you imagine Jesus? If you grew up in the West it is likely that your image of Christ will be one of a European male with white skin, blue eyes and long flowing hair and beard. This is the image that has been propagated in the West since the 6 th century, appearing in religious paintings and reproductions up until the present day. But of course, this is not what Jesus actually looked like. A…