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Poetry and Prayer

Being Here Prayers for Curiosity, Justice, and Love By Pádraig Ó Tuama Eerdmans, 175 pages, $22.99 Invocation Collected Poems (1973-2021) By Travis T. DuPriest DuPriest Books, 240 pages, $27.95 Certain poems read like prayer....

A Place at the (S)table

Mia Anderson’s versatility as an actor was evident at the book launch of her latest work, O Is for Christmas: A Midwinter Night’s Dream, at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church in Toronto.

Lord Harries on George Herbert in Advent

Lord Harries draws attention to George Herbert’s awareness of his sinfulness, and rightly points out that this is something modern people, including many modern Christians, would like to avoid thinking about.

A Blazing, Bracing Sacramentality — A Review of Recent Works by Jane Clark Scharl

Having much appreciated Jane Clark Scharl’s brilliant criticism on topics from Milton to Flannery O’Connor, I had very high expectations for her two recently...

Haunting the Father: MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul

I am a latecomer to George MacDonald’s The Diary of an Old Soul. I knew about the Scotsman MacDonald (1824-1905), of course; had read...

Blessings and Meetings, Part Two

Based on a paper I read at the All Souls Club in London on June 5. In part one, we considered the many blessings announced...

Blessings and Meetings, Part One

Based on a paper I read at the All Souls Club in London on June 5. This article grew out of two long silent retreats...

Coleridge: The Leper of Abercuawg, Marilynne Robinson’s Genesis, and Anglo-Saxon liturgical books

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Music Compared to the music of Haydn and Mozart, that of Dieterich Buxtehude...

Coleridge: Scorsese’s Jesus film, the Erasmian Quixote, and ecstatic poetry

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Contemporary Art Mark K. Spencer reviews Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts...

Quintet of Quips and Quibbles

I wrote these five poems  — four quips and one quibble  — during an eight-day silent retreat at the Jesuit Centre, St Beuno’s, North Wales...

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