Joseph Evans
Fr Joseph Evans is a Catholic priest and a member of Opus Dei. He has worked as a journalist and youth worker, and is currently a university chaplain in Oxford. He is co-founder and Editorial Director of Adamah Media and a poet. His most recent work, “When God Hides”, was published by SLG Press in 2025.
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Editorial: Show mercy first, and then ask questions
(1 minute read) We should start with mercy and calculate afterwards, thinks Joseph Evans after reading this week’s Adamah Media articles.
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Editorial: Why are we obsessed with security?
(1 minute read) Joseph Evans reflects on the articles we published last week in this editorial.
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Editorial: The weakness of oppression
(1 minute read) “Whenever you have to impose your beliefs and silence discordant views, you have lost the argument.” Joseph Evans gives his take.
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Child’s play
(4 minute read) In this poetic exploration, Joseph Evans is learning - and helps us to learn - what it means to be a child.
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Christmas against the Nazis
(5 minute read) Joseph Evans describes how a Christmas ski trip prepared a heroic group of German students for their later anti-Nazi activism.
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Travel we must
(5 minute read) Joseph Evans argues that travelling is essential to human well-being and that concern for the environment should not, in the long run, stop us from doing so.
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Double-take
(2 minute read) Tascha Von Uexkull offers a poetical exploration of our perception of reality.
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The curse of busyness
(4 minute read) The phrase ‘I don’t have time’ should be banished from our vocabulary, says Tascha von Uexkull. Because the truth is quite different.
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“Autonomy is one of the joys of encountering art”
(4 minute read) It’s not just about the exhibits. Even in Covid-times, museums and galleries should also consider the quality of the visitors’ experience, argues Tascha von Uexkull.
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The faith-science dialogue: it just got harder
(5 minute read) Joseph Evans is encouraged by a discussion between scientists and people of faith which was not afraid to tackle the big questions technological advances are posing to belief in God.
