beauty
The texts of some of Irina Ratushinskaya’s poetry
When I did the Echoes from Eternity edition of Irina Ratushinskaya poems, I mentioned that I would post the texts of some of them. So,
12th August 2020
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hope
21st Century
Beirut Disaster: An Inspiring & Personal message from Trivina Kassis
The news from Beirut this week was horrendous. It was all just so NEEDLESS. A catalogue of criminality, responsibility-avoidance coupled with the impotence of those
7th August 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity: 37. T.S.Eliot’s Little Gidding
So I realise this the second time this year I’ve homed in on this poem, but I come back to it again and again. Which
19th July 2020
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BOOKS/WRITING
Echoes from Eternity: 35. Irina Ratushinskaya from the Gulag
Irina Ratushinskaya was an inspiration. I’ve mentioned her here before, having had a fluke encounter in a bookshop. She proved remarkably resilient in the most
28th June 2020
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20th Century
Hearing the Unheard: 2. Five Black Theologians to listen to
Inevitably, this series’ lists are very personal and limited. It’s primarily a way of honouring those who have had an impact on me, but they’re
21st June 2020
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BOOKS/WRITING
Echoes from Eternity: 34. George Herbert (revisited)
The urge to return to Uncle George was irresistible. He is so lucid but honest; so lightly humourous, but theologically weighty. I actually filmed this
18th June 2020
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
Healthy Faith in the Coronavirus crisis
I meant to post a fortnight ago, but it kept slipping my mind. Ironic really because this project completely commandeered my headspace for 10 whole
21st May 2020
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AMERICAS
Echoes from Eternity: 28. Jane Kenyon has it out with Melancholy
It feels relentless. We are in the 8th week of our family’s experience of Lockdown/Quarantine and while there are hints of change, there is nothing
15th May 2020
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BOOKS/WRITING
Echoes from Eternity 21. Gerard Manley Hopkins in Spring
It’s almost as if there’s a contradiction in terms between the glories of the early English spring and this season of Covid19 horror and fear.
22nd April 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 17. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s prison poems
This is Holy Saturday. It’s an in-between day, a limbo. It is deeply unsettling, especially if you need your world to be categorisable, identifiable, graspable.
11th April 2020
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beauty
Echoes from Eternity 15: John Bunyan’s Doubting Castle
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.
9th April 2020
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art & painting
Echoes from Eternity 12. Two for Palm Sunday
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
5th April 2020
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