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Longfellow’s Bells in Advent

During war and tragedy, Longfellow writes of bells that wake us from death's dream - God is not dead, nor does he sleep.

Poetry for the Church with Abram Van Engen

Poetry delights, deepens, and is for the Church.

Exploring Liturgy Through the Arts

The Awe and Presence Conference will ask, in five different ways, how the beauty of Christian worship shapes our lives, and shapes us for life with God.

Edwin Muir’s Crucial Question

My hope is that one of Edwin Muir’s poems (“The Killing”) will find its way into a few Good Friday sermons.

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...

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