For this Maundy Thursday, here’s a favourite purple passage. If I’d been on the ball, I would have obviously put the Alan Paton passage tonight.
Today, the voice of an angel. Nope, I don’t have delusions of celestial proportions. I’m referring to the great African-American writer, Maya Angelou (1928-2014) who
So apologies are due; a daily echo was proving a little too much to manage, especially because we’ve been beset by various challenges in the
The sun came out yesterday, the sky filled with cotton wool clouds, and birds chirped merrily. An idyllic English afternoon in early Spring, in fact.
Time to get out of the house. We’re allowed out for up to an hour a day, which is just as well as we’d lose
Q regulars will know that William Cowper has been a personal favourite for years. He had to navigate the storms of mental illness throughout his
There’s a special quality to the landscape at Little Gidding. It’s not spectacular, nor is it especially unusual. It’s archetypally English: undulating, Midlands farmland, broken
Sacred Treasure There has been much heat and hurt recently about power abuse and church ministry. It is something that I’ve been working on and
Tom Stoppard is one of the greatest living playwrights. End of. His output has been remarkable so I’ve always been excited when news of new
Sacred Treasure This is an extraordinary story that reads like a whodunnit: the stolen early manuscript of Mark? (long read but worth it) I’m an
Sacred Treasure If you’ve not come across it, “The Saint John’s Bible is the first handwritten, hand-illuminated Bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in over
I really wasn’t sure how to choose this because there are various options. Spotify and the like will tell you what you listened to the