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Stringfellow on Friday – the circus

Stringfellow often took time out from the routine of his life to get into his car and follow the circus…

The writings of William Stringfellow have existed in a shadowland for me. I’ve heard people quote him and I’m aware…

My good friend Phil Harrison, (designer of this blog template) emailed me a link to The World Liberal Opportunists Made,…

Fintan O’Toole writing in today’s Irish Times. The late, great historian of modern Europe, Tony Judt, in his last book,…

“All positive religious acts which are directly and explicitly related, both knowingly and willingly, to God may be called prayer.”…

I’ve never read Attwood before but am conscious of her reputation, so I picked up Oryx and Crake recently, having…

Finally a poem. By Mary Oliver Gethsemane The grass never sleeps.Or the…

The time for sitting is over. This next point moves deeper into…

He wrestles, repeatedly, with the same desire to avoid his calling. ‘Take…

But back to Jesus. The second half of his prayer is the…