by revd | Jan 29, 2026 | Our Father
I remember this woman who sat for years In a wheelchair, looking straight ahead Out the window at sycamore trees unleafing And leafing at the far end of the lane. Straight out past the TV in the corner, The stunted, agitated hawthorn bush, The same small calves with...
by revd | Jan 23, 2026 | Our Father
In this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a reply. It is a room I enter from which someone has just gone, the vestibule for the arrival of one who has not yet come. R.S. Thomas...
by revd | Jan 2, 2026 | Faith Shapers
Academically brilliant as an Oxford University student, in 1866 Gerard Manley Hopkins left the Anglican Church, to which both of his parents were deeply committed, to become a convinced Roman Catholic. Following his personal ‘conversion’, he obeyed an inner ‘call’ to...
by revd | Sep 5, 2025 | Believers
Only the present is thy part and fee And happy thou, If, though thou didst not beat thy future brow, Thou could’st well see What present things required of thee. They ask enough; why should’st thou further go? Raise not the mud Of future depths, but drink...
by revd | Aug 24, 2025 | Humankind
In life I worked hard and achieved a great deal but in the end I achieved nothing. Solo Nemo 
