Monthly Archives: March 2019

George Herbert’s “Redemption”

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Through Lent With George Herbert (Tuesday after the First Sunday of Lent) After yesterday’s The Sacrifice Herbert has several shorter poems that try to respond to what is said in it. The sixth poem is this one: Redemption Having been … Continue reading →

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The Sacrifice

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Through Lent With George Herbert (Monday after the First Sunday of Lent) The third poem of The Church, the fifth poem of The Temple (or sixth, if you include  the Dedication), is The Sacrifice. This makes sense, following after The … Continue reading →

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In The Wilderness

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

A sermon preached on The First Sunday of Lent at the Anglican Church of St. Thomas, Kefalas, Crete, Greece, at 11:00 am on March 10, 2019. After his baptism, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and … Continue reading →

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Superliminare & The Altar

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Through Lent With George Herbert (Saturday after Ash Wednesday) Superliminare Thou, whom the former precepts have Sprinkled and taught, how to behave Thyself in church; approach, and taste The churches mystical repast. Avoid, profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, … Continue reading →

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Women’s Ways of Knowing

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

On this International Woman’s Day (March 8, 2019) I would refer my male friends to the book, Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. I read it back in the ’80s, and if I was not … Continue reading →

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The Church-porch

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Through Lent With George Herbert (Friday after Ash Wednesday) The Church-Porch (Peirirrhanterium) As Arnold Stein points out in the first chapter of George Herbert’s Lyrics there is a plainness about Herbert’s poetry. The plainness is both obvious and concealed, though, … Continue reading →

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Through Lent With George Herbert

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Since 2002 or so I’ve had a copy of the The Complete English Works of George Herbert, the English poet and clergyman who lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James VI & I, and Charles I. While I have … Continue reading →

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The Poems You Would Have Written

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

On Ash Wednesday 2019 W. H. Auden, from the epilogue to his elegy to Louis MacNeice in his book of poetry, About the House(1965), 23.

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