by Jill Segger | May 27, 2023 | Commentary
“GANAWA BACK! GA FARDER OOT!” If you walk the Lakeland fells, you may hear these cries from a shepherd directing a dog as it gathers a swirling mass of Herdwicks and guides them towards a gate or sheepfold. Those words have become a lockdown measuring rod for me. The...
by Jill Segger | May 14, 2023 | Commentary
THE TUMULT and the shouting has died. And though the captains and the kings may not have departed, they have, for the present, disappeared from our screens. The power-pageant of throne and altar has rightly been much anatomised and discussed, both in these pages and...
by Jill Segger | Apr 18, 2023 | Commentary
NORMAN NICHOLSON lived all his life with ‘Sea to the West’. The Times obituary described him as “The most gifted English Christian poet of his century”. Others, as a ‘provincial poet’. Both views are true, though I sense that neither fully value the power and worth of...
by Jill Segger | Mar 23, 2023 | Commentary
“O WORLD INVISIBLE, we view thee…”. The opening line of Francis Thompson’s incarnational poem In No Strange Land illuminates the concept of sacrament as the here-and-now visible representation of an eternal truth existing beyond our physical vision. And just to...
by Jill Segger | Dec 8, 2022 | Commentary
THE ‘FISCAL EVENT’ OF KWASi KWARTENG AND LIZ TRUSS brought the nation to the edge of a 2008-level financial collapse in September. The blinkered and arrogant insouciance which informed it had long been visible in the sweeping, unevidenced assertions of...
