by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Humankind
Round me whirled a fiery zone And the recoil of my word’s airy ripple My heart unheedful has puffed up and blown. Therefore I cast myself before thee prone: Let cool hands on my burning brain and press From my weak heart the swelling emptiness. George MacDonald...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Believers
…He bids us love our enemies, And live in Christian peace, ‘Tis only he can order wars and woes that never cease. Vengeance is mine, I will repay; Beware! Thou shalt not kill: Behold the bloody fields of France, They are God’s holy will…. He is the unknown God...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Humankind
It was sex, sex, sex and money, money, God’s mistake and the devil’s creation, that took the mind of the congregation on long journeys into the hills of a strange land, where sin was the honey bright as sunlight in death’s hives. They lost the parable and found the...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Humankind
Moments of great calm kneeling before an altar of wood in a stone church in summer, waiting for the God to speak: the air is a staircase for silence; the sun’s light ringing me, as though I acted a great role. And the audiences still; all the close throng of spirits...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
O, when our clergy, at the Dreadful Day, Shall make their audit, when the Judge shall say ‘Give your accounts. What have my lambs been fed? Say, do they all stand sound? Is there none dead By your defaults? Come, shepherds, bring them forth That I may crown your...
