With Thanks to Sister Wendy Beckett
Published on: 7 January, 2019
By: David Torkington
This is the first year that I did not have a Christmas Card from Sr Wendy Beckett.
“Woman this is your Son. Son this is your Mother.”
Published on: 23 March, 2016
By: David Torkington
All my life I’ve suffered from dyslexia, but it was virtually unknown when I was a boy. The verdict of my teachers was divided between “that boy is stupid” and “that boy is bone-idle”,
From Light to Darkness – Dyslexia and Me
Published on: 15 November, 2015
By: David Torkington
It took more than twenty years after leaving school years before I discovered that I was a dyslexic, thanks to a chance meeting with a doctor..
Carmelite Mystics to the Rescue
Published on: 22 March, 2015
By: David Torkington
Whilst giving a series of lectures on prayer at Belmont Abbey, I was cornered by one of the participants who demanded to know my qualifications. Although I was taken aback, I couldn’t but concede that he had every right to know whether or not the lecturer was worth the time and money he had spent….