Hopeful Poem Advent Poem
The other day a friend who is, among other things, the Arts Chaplain/Curator at St Faith’s Anglican church, asked if I had a poem that focused on the stru...
Category: Hope
Declaration of a different reality
Thomas Merton, writing in the early 1960’s, observed: Here is the great temptation of the modern age, this universal infection of fanaticism, this plague ...
The tedious and the astonishing
Strife at first light. Fear for breakfast.Daily meal of hostility.All this is tedious. Hate is tedious.The man shaking his fist behind his windshield,behind his...
Grow Mercy’s year-end list of unwarranted propositions–revised and ready for 2017
I believe that words, in moments of grace, as Elie Wiesel said, can attain the quality of deeds; that despite the crazed magnificence of our vanities, our screw...