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 Bernadette Meaden | Apr 15, 2023 | Commentary
DURING THE FIRST lockdown, like so many other people, I became aware of what an enormous privilege it was to have a garden. Knowing that so many people were confined to homes that not only lacked access to any outside space, but might also be overcrowded and...
by Joyce McMillan | Apr 11, 2023 | Commentary
DURING the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, the Edinburgh-based artist and weaver James Donald began to take photographs of details which attracted his attention during his daily walks. The grain of an old wooden door, textures of stone and brick, swirls of paint from...
by Simon Barrow | Apr 10, 2023 | Commentary
ONE OF THE oft-repeated catch phrases from the earliest phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the wake of the first lockdown in March 2020 (which was a huge shock to all of us), was “we can’t return to the ‘old normal’.” There was a palpable sense, for a time,...
by Alison Phipps | Apr 9, 2023 | Commentary
Friday: In my tradition we remember that a young, male, Jewish carpenter in Occupied Palestine, who exercised freedom of expression and worship, died in an excruciating public execution, out-sourced to Occupiers after a rigged trial, dog-whistle populism and plenty of...
by Simon Barrow | Apr 7, 2023 | Commentary
TO A SIGNIFICANT extent, what could be called the life of the spirit – the invitation to reconsider the world and each other through the eyes of love and fresh possibility – is a life of imagination. By that, I do not mean fantasy or wishful thinking, but rather the...
