Happy Feast Day of St John of the Cross! To celebrate I attach below an extract from a new book on Buddhist-Christian dialogue around the body ('On the Body: Buddhist-Christian Dialogues' ed. E. Harris, A. Nehring, P. Schmidt-Leukel). As we approach the centenary of the St John being acclaimed a Doctor of the Church may I wish you all a wonderful year ahead full of much anticipated discussion of the importance of this key doctor of divinity. Watch this space for more details!

Here is the Introduction to a new article just published in 'Religions' (2025, 16) edited by Ali Qadir and Zena Zang, both of whom I am...