Written Words
Poems, prose, songs and musings – gathered, by default, as the church year turns. Choose another path below to re-gather the same works under saints, poets, the books that shaped them, or their themes.
A sonnet for Saint Barnabas
Well-named, you were the door that others entered through, the open hand, the steady word, the friend who knew how courage, kindled once, is carried heart to heart…
Read the sonnet →All written words
gathered by the church year – choose a path above to re-gatherTrinitytide – the present season
On the threefold cord
A cord of three strands, woven and not spun, holds fast the place where single threads come undone…
Encourager – a blues for Barnabas
I got the early-morning, son-of-comfort blues, good news to carry and a road to choose…
On friendship and the apostles
We remember the ones who spoke; Barnabas is remembered for the way he listened, and for the room he made for others…
Notes toward the Trinity
Reflections gathered across a decade of Trinity Sundays.
The albatross and the act of blessing
From Coleridge, a meditation on mercy.
Frost at midnight, revisited
A winter reflection.
… the year turns on – the Visitation, the Nativity of John the Baptist, and the long green road of Ordinary Time. Keep reading.
Poets & authors
On reading Coleridge by lamplight
The lamp burns low; the Mariner’s pale eye still gleams, and holds me, as it held the wedding guest, to dreams…
After Herbert’s The Windows
Lord, how can glass both break the light and bless the room it falls in – colour out of clearness…
Donne and the art of holy argument
He never stopped arguing – with kings, with lovers, with death – and the wonder is how the arguing became a kind of prayer…
On reading Coleridge by lamplight
The lamp burns low; the Mariner’s pale eye still gleams, and holds me, as it held the wedding guest, to dreams…
After Herbert’s The Windows
Lord, how can glass both break the light and bless the room it falls in – colour out of clearness…
Donne and the art of holy argument
He never stopped arguing – with kings, with lovers, with death – and the wonder is how the arguing became a kind of prayer…
On reading Coleridge by lamplight
The lamp burns low; the Mariner’s pale eye still gleams, and holds me, as it held the wedding guest, to dreams…
After Herbert’s The Windows
Lord, how can glass both break the light and bless the room it falls in – colour out of clearness…
Donne and the art of holy argument
He never stopped arguing – with kings, with lovers, with death – and the wonder is how the arguing became a kind of prayer…
Saints
Phantastes 3 works
George MacDonald, 1858 – the book that baptised Lewis’s imagination.
Pilgrimage 9 works
The road, the threshold, the long way home.
Literary works
Phantastes 3 works
George MacDonald, 1858 – the book that baptised Lewis’s imagination.
Pilgrimage 9 works
The road, the threshold, the long way home.
Themes
Phantastes 3 works
George MacDonald, 1858 – the book that baptised Lewis’s imagination.
Pilgrimage 9 works
The road, the threshold, the long way home.
