Don Hall is our poet laureate. A recent edition of his collected poems includes a lyric for these pluralistic times. Hall writes: The times are propitious for fake religions.Today let’s decide which priest, beauty, athlete,moviestar, or Jungian to celebrate by electing him…
I was deeply blessed by the corporate worship at Chongshin Theological Seminary (near Seoul). Services were typically led by students, although sometimes also by faculty. Korean prayer times are intense, often with everyone in the congregation praying out loud simultaneously. …
In the wake of the mass mobilization of Carl Trueman’s loyal Welsh Ref 21 fan base after the disastrous defeat of the English rugby at the hands of Wales at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, the Ref21 Blogmeister has posed…
From Charles Spurgeon’s sermon “Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts”: “I hear another one say, ‘But suppose I have committed the unpardonable sin;’ to which I answer, ‘But suppose you have not;’ and there is just as much reason for…
Yes, I acknowledge the defeat. A source of national shame, and I humbly call on Tony Blair to make Monday a national day of prayer and humiliation. I console myself only with the thought that, the occasional loss to Wales…
It would be in poor taste to point out to Carl, especially on his birthday, that the headlines on the BBC news site this afternoon reads, “Resurgent Wales see off England” alluding to the Welsh Rugby Union victory (27-18). One reader…
Jeremy Smith’s article in this issue (“Petrolium Pundits“) has provoked a stormy protest. See “We Get Letters” page.
Many scholars assert, de rigeur, that Saint Patrick (Patricius or Padrig) was born in the still Welsh-speaking Northern Kingdom of Strathclyde of Romano-Brythonic stock around 385 AD at a place called Bannavem Taberniae (Banwen), but the best of them maintain this a…
I can indeed confirm that it is the self-proclaimed Greatest Living Englishman’s birthday on Sunday. But, having posed Del’s questions to him earlier today re. rumours of Springsteen burning and Welsh learning, he quoted to me Ernst Renan’s response when asked by…
Just back from a few days in Chicago. Managed a quick tour of the “Cézanne to Picasso” exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. Took the “Admission Free on Tuesday” option, to mingle with the plebs! No point in paying…
