Having just heard of her death – see WAPO, Guardian, Wiki – it seems appropriate to repost my post from 2010. I can’t now remember exactly
It’s nearly 10 months since I last did a combo – so here’s the latest. William Cowper is a personal hero – he has featured
Sacred Treasure This is serious – Turkish Protestant churches sent death threats – directly affects a number of churches that I’ve regularly spent time with
It was a while back when I encountered this poem from the polymathic Lewis, that master of words and fantasies and reality. It is an
So I should be upfront about this one. It’s a cheat – because I’m not the instigator of this particular combination – the poet was.
If the last Q combo was a chronological mismatch of artist and poet, this one is seasonal. Today’s still been pretty warm for a British September
Sacred Treasure Did God Betray You? Really helpful piece about suffering and faith. We’re all sadists now: Carl Trueman on provocative but insightful form Tim
This is a complete mismatch chronologically – but there seems an undeniable synergy here (to me at least). For Jacob (the deceiver) is the one
William Nicholson wrote Shadowlands, the play (which became the film) inspired by C.S.Lewis’s extraordinary testimony A Grief Observed. In it, he gave Lewis this lovely
So here’s the 3rd Q Combination. I don’t know how well known these two geniuses are beyond British shores – but they are true 20th Century
So here’s the 2nd Q Combination. This time much more contemporary. Maya Angelou was a truly remarkable, versatile writer, who died only last year. I’ve nowhere
Have been thinking of different things I can do on the blog, and one of them is to offer occasional juxtapositions of creativity that warm