Last month I wrote a Letter to the Editor of Christianity Today magazine. Here is a preface and the Letter.
I am a retired theologian and missionary,...
Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden have recently proposed rethinking the Anglican Communion, given the extra year provided by the Covid-19 crisis. They call on the three...
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood,The land of spices; something understood.
Let’s start with a brief primer on the sonnet. Of the two main...
Prayer the Church’s banquet, angels’ age,God’s breath in man returning to his birth,The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,The Christian plummet sounding heaven and...
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,Exalted manna, gladness of the best,Heaven in ordinary, man well dressed,The Milky Way, the bird of...
Engine against the Almighty, sinner’s tower,Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,The six-days world transposing in an hour,A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Today...