- Sep 4, 2020
- 4 min
Comment: Malcolm Guite - The Ancient Rambler
There are people whose mere existence sparks in me a spontaneous sense of relief; a feeling of relief that a particular kind of life is...
- Aug 29, 2020
- 2 min
Conversations: Rahima Mahmut - "Let Our Dialogue Joyfully Begin"
The Uyghurs are a people in the midst of a catastrophe. The UN has estimated that at least one million Uyghur Muslims have been rounded...
- Aug 26, 2020
- 1 min
TheCommonToad
"Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his...
- Apr 18, 2018
- 8 min
Kafka's Pillar of Salt
“Can you know anything but illusion? If once illusion were destroyed you would never dare to look back; you would be turned into a pillar...
- Feb 16, 2018
- 7 min
King Arthur and Orestes: The Once and Future Crisis
For the first time I have waded into the complete works of Sir Thomas Malory, an overwhelming, mysterious, untidy, and addictive tome...
- Jan 12, 2018
- 6 min
Minor Notes: Townes Van Zandt's 'None But the Rain'
Towards the end of his life Townes Van Zandt was asked by a Dutch journalist about the great number of sad songs in his repertoire....
- Jan 11, 2018
- 4 min
nO.
I wish I could recall which interview it was that anarchist professor and activist Noam Chomsky freely admitted – after being asked about...
- Nov 4, 2017
- 16 min
Martin Luther in Our World: Pt I
Part I: Doubt "The world is coming to its senses as if waking from an ancient dream.” -Erasmus, 1519 Five hundred years ago this week an...
- Jan 29, 2017
- 6 min
For the Sake of Unity: Forget it!
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34 I've for some years been at...
- Nov 29, 2016
- 6 min
Lodestar: The Unlikely Triumph of Shirley Collins
In the beginning of this year I jotted down some admiring notes on Shirley Collins, who at the time was still more or less thought of as...
