Known of Old

"Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk therein' . . ." Jeremiah 6: 16

26 December 2021

Out in the Open: A Christmas Reflection

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We forget what an almost insanely daring, revealing revelation the Divine babe in the manger is. We forget that it is not just an event, how...
20 October 2021

Unkinder and Ungentler: A Not-Too-Cynical Meditation on our Global(ist) Modern Compassion

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I A wise librarian once described Walter de la Mare - a poet considered by some to be the greatest children's writer in English of the t...
16 October 2021

A Brief Rejoinder to "Words of Encouragement"

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Well, anyhow - as I'd hoped I'd succeeded in putting into the mouths of our fearless Western leaders  - I find this to be a boldly ...
08 October 2021

Words of Encouragement; or, How Our Leaders Might Exhort Us (if they could first be honest with themselves)

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"Let not your hearts be troubled; neither be afraid.  "I.e., don't let yourselves be discouraged even for a second by Afghanis...
21 June 2021

The Anti-Father; or, The Prayer We've Been Living (sort of a post-Father's Day special)

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What? you didn't actually think I'd launch this thing on Father's Day, did you? There are days, of course, when the lip-servic...
25 May 2021

A Modern Capitalist's (anti-)Pentecost?

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Funny. Had there been room, I just might have subtitled it: Prayer of a Well-Meaning but Confused Efficiency Expert. Anyhow, here goes: ...
23 May 2021

THE Choice: and our choices

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Have you ever met anyone who was, let us say, extremely conscious of the power and freedom of their own choices? So much so, in fact, they ...
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