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The Sacrifice
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
In The Wilderness
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
Superliminare & The Altar
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
Women’s Ways of Knowing
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
The Church-porch
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
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
The Poems You Would Have Written
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.
Desire and Obedience
A sermon preached on the Second Sunday Before Lent at the Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, Greece, 11:00 am on Feb 24, 2018. Once upon a time there was a Church of Scotland minister who had … Continue reading
It’s All Greek To Me: The Greek Letter Υ
I’m sitting in the Chania Airport for what should be a short hop to Athens, but for some reason – perhaps the Saharan sand in the air combined with rain – our plane is not here, and one flight tracker … Continue reading
Lessons from the Great War: The Will to Fight
This is my fourth post on Lessons from the Great War. The first raised four questions. The second addressed one of the questions – why did the war end? The answer was that the Allies on the Western Front had … Continue reading
The Island Parson 