three hares

The second in the series of RS Thomas poems over Easter is ‘Aftermath’. Thomas often alights on the image of ‘the machine’ as a malevolent d...

For the next four weeks of the Easter break I’m using for the chaplaincy newsletter some poems by RS Thomas , an old curmudgeon of a Welsh p...

Just been to see The Page Turner ( La Tourneuse de Pages ). Precise, cold, revenge served as nouvelle cuisine. A perfect study of 'an e...

Leafing through my old Bible I came across a quote I had written across the first page as a kind of warning. It still resonates with me. I c...

I've heard rumours about Terry Eagleton's review of Dawkins' latest work, but it proved even funnier than I'd expected. Rea...

I've been reading a book on the spirituality of the Psalms recently. It's writer, Walter Brueggermann, uses a three-fold classifica...

The more I explore faith, the more I come to see that the concept of 'gift' is an essential one. If I were to put that into an image...