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Opening Sojourner Truth House
Moya Barnett on a new Calais house of hospitality
Moya Barnett
Aug 5
The Sacrament of Brother
Adapted from Br Johannes' reflection at our monthly vigil outside the Home Office in February 2026. Le ss than two weeks ago, I was in the refugee camp in Dunkirk, speaking with a young man from West Africa. He told me how he had tried to cross from Libya to Italy on a small boat—perhaps a fishing boat. The crossing went wrong. In the middle of the Mediterranean, people around him were crying, fading away, slipping into the deep cold silence. He and fourteen others survived.
Br Johannes Maertens
Apr 17
Solidarity and Racial Justice
From September to December 2024 I was in Calais, at Maria Skobtsova House, a house of hospitality for the most vulnerable refugee women...
Moya Barnett
May 12, 2025
Kindness in Precarious Spaces
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 A few weeks ago, I was in the Dunkirk camp, where I regularly join Art Refuge* in their work with the medical...
Br Johannes Maertens
Dec 24, 2024
Externalisation
Those of us who are not saints are likely to find ourselves, eventually, asking the Lord ‘when did we see you a stranger?’ (Mt 25:44) We know in principle that what we do for the poor we do for Christ, but the definite moments when it becomes clearly imperative to act on that principle come up so rarely that, in practice, we generally do less than we should. We might recognise refugees and illegalised migrants today as some of those people among whom Jesus told us we should e
Thomas Frost
Dec 18, 2024
Where are the Christians?
It puzzled him he had met no Christians. Where were they? Where is that Jerusalem community Luke writes about?
Br Johannes Maertens
Nov 9, 2024