art & painting
Echoes from Eternity 23. Wry Smiles with Wendy Cope
Everything is still so weird. So we need to let our hair down a bit. We need to have a few laughs. So here is
2nd May 2020
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UK
20th Century
1917 and the Futile Pilgrimage
I got rather carried away after I saw the latest Sam Mendes film (in the cinema with friends in the States last October… who’d have
23rd April 2020
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apologetics
Echoes from Eternity: 20. C. S. Lewis’ poems
Most don’t associate Lewis with his poetry. My understanding is, however, he would have far preferred to be known as a poet than almost anything
20th April 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 19. William Blake in Nicholas Winton’s Memorial Garden
William Blake (1757-1827) was one of a kind. A printer, an illustrator, a painter, a poet, a visionary, a provocateur. And that’s just the start
16th April 2020
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18th Century
Echoes from Eternity 13. Christopher Smart’s Cat Jeoffry
I know little about Christopher Smart (1722-1771), apart from the fact that the suffered the torments, like his almost contemporary William Cowper, of an eighteenth-century
6th April 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 11. A Bygone pre-War England
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.
1st April 2020
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apologetics
Echoes from Eternity 10. Introducing Ezekiel Bulver by C. S. Lewis
Today’s reading is neither poetry nor fiction but is prose of a different sort. It is one of C. S. Lewis’s great essays, one which
30th March 2020
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18th Century
Echoes from Eternity 9. Thomas Gray’s Elegy
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
29th March 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 7. Patrick Barrington’s Platypus
Time to take a break from seriousness and intensity. Here’s some much-needed light relief. Patrick Barrington, or as he was to become, the 11th (and
24th March 2020
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BOOKS/WRITING
Echoes from Eternity 2. R. S. Thomas
R. S. Thomas, I imagine, would not necessarily have had much time for me. I don’t really know why I think that (and I’m probably
19th March 2020
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19th Century
Q Marks the Spot 137 (March 2020)
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
1st March 2020
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20th Century
Anti-Semitism in the UK: 3. Figleaves, Snowflakes and Statistics
Previous posts Anti-Semitism in the UK: 1. 75 years after Auschwitz… Anti-Semitism in the UK: 2. The challenge of definitions Now I’m super-conscious that the
17th February 2020
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