by Archive | Mar 21, 2019
Good poetry stays in the mind. It takes root, develops and insists on keeping company with the reader. Good poetry stays in the mind. It takes root, develops and insists on keeping company with the reader.Since referencing UA Fanthorpe’s poem Friends’ Meeting House,...
by Archive | Mar 15, 2019
Forty-nine people were killed on 15 March 2019 after shootings at t Forty-nine people were killed on 15 March 2019 after shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Making sure that those responsible cannot commit further violence is the...
by Archive | Mar 14, 2019
As I listened to Phillip Hammond’s self-congratulatory assessment of As I listened to Phillip Hammond’s self-congratulatory assessment of the UK economy yesterday, I thought of the words of John Ruskin, born 200 years ago: “That country is the richest which nourishes...
by Archive | Mar 13, 2019
“May we be doers of the word, and not hearers only…” The famous theologian Karl Barth urged preachers to read the Bible alongside their newspapers to help them understand the “May we be doers of the word, and not hearers only…” The famous...
by Archive | Mar 13, 2019
I came across the following startling tweet on 2 March 2019. I came across the following startling tweet on 2 March 2019. Posted by Dr Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington DC, he was commenting on Jason D Greenblatt’s...
